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I'm Confused

Postby Pondscum » Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:28 pm

I've just come across two words, or phrases, that pretty much sum me up: Maladaptive Daydreaming and Hikikomori. I don't know if there's any kind of link between these two things or if it's just me.

I do know that I've spent most of my life daydreaming. When reality bothers me, I tune it out and go to my room and just immerse myself in fantasy. When I don't want to be me, I just decide to become someone else. And when I stumbled across the term "Maladaptive Daydreaming", I totally identified with it. I'd been doing it most of my life. I thought it was just me being weird as usual.

I've also been pretty much a hermit, again, for most of my life. I recently came across the word "Hikikomori" amd it too resonates very much with me. No, I'm not a young Japanese man (far from it actually!) but the description of the withdrawal etc is something that sounds exactly like me.

I guess I'm just wondering if the two things are in any way conncected. It's weird, they're both totally new words to me and it's strange because I majored in psychology and have read extensively in the field, yet somehow I missed all that. I am now wondering what else I missed?!

Any insights/ideas gratefully accepted!
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Re: I'm Confused

Postby 1PolarBear » Mon Sep 11, 2023 3:47 pm

Jungian introversion links the two to some degree.
Introverted intuition would account for daydreaming.
Here they explain a bit.
https://frithluton.com/articles/introve ... -typology/

Or just look at the original paper.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Jung/type ... ----------

But basically some people just like their own mind construct than the actual world, so it makes sense to isolate from it, just like you explained already.
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Postby Pondscum » Tue Sep 12, 2023 3:48 pm

Thanks for the links! I find Jung very interesting, and after taking the Meyers-Briggs test I usually identify as INFP, so definitely introverted, lol. Your ideas make sense to me. :D
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