Regarding Maladaptive Daydreaming

Hello other schizoids,

I am a person with schizoid personality disorder. I have maladaptive daydreaming. Regarding the discontinuing of my SNRIs meds, I have been feeling an increase in my Dissociative Daydreaming. I have been very much dependent on it, since I have no friends, and my only contact is my mother--my only confidante. I feel that my maladaptive daydreaming is somewhat problematic. At least for two reasons: I zone out in class. I make quicker connections due to my active mind and dissociation, and I feel that sometimes I am alienating the other students because I push myself enthusiastically beyond the curriculum and end up 10 steps ahead of the class. Then I zone out, and I end up repeating what the professor said in class like an idiot. Both times, I seem to be isolating myself further by doing these two things. I don't socialize with anyone at university. My whole life, both childhood and adulthood, I was always isolated, periodically getting out of my shell, leading to disaster. But now, I am firmly isolated. Isolation is my blanket. However, this isolation seems to be more all-encompassing and consuming me.
I know that you guys don't have a solution to this. We are all schizoids. We all enjoy being alone probably because we were abused by our caregivers (teachers or parents)/peers (bullies). However, the dissociative absorption is terribly painful. And it is time-consuming. The Maladaptive Daydreaming is so bad that I often imagine a secret relationship with a beautiful celebrity I have seen on Wikipedia or TV. Or I end up becoming so ambitious that I often have maladaptive daydreams of executing my lofty ambitions. It has gotten really bad.

Anyway, thanks for listening

As I said in my previous replies there is always the same reason behind all somewhat "negative" behaviour: reduce stress. This is very important to understand 1st, then you can think about what can be done to reduce the negative impact. Yes, you can try to identify the source of stress, but you cannot avoid it all times. But you can try to channelize the behaviour e.g. when you tend to ponder endlessly, try to write down what's bothering you. Once it is written it is out of you head. Maybe this works with maladaptive daydreaming, too. Even more: maybe you have the imagination to be a writer. Of course this need training. You have to get used to express your thoughts in writing. Write as it pleases you and you can enjoy developing stories. Just a suggestion.