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Neurodivergent 13w

What do you have if you constantly have conversations in your head with people who’ve screwed you over in the past?

Anonymous 13w

look into maladaptive daydreaming!

Anonymous 13w

I deal with this and for me, it’s a maladaptive coping skill due to delayed emotional processing and issues with alexithymia. If I can’t tell my own emotions apart, how can I talk about them to others? At the time, I wasn’t able to vocalize or understand my emotions properly, so now, I’m trying to get what closure I can, but it’s usually too late.

Anonymous 13w

Like they’re full in depth imagining branches of dialogue level mental conversations and situations that hit me without any want or desire

Anonymous 13w

Journaling

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OP 13w

I wanna know this too! But I have conversations in my head with old friends who had a huge impact in my life, but they're no longer in my life. Bland I just talk in myself, talking to them like they're still right next to me.

Anonymous

#3 13w

oooooooo are you aware of the causes or things that trigger that?

Anonymous

OP 13w

it’s typically present in people who have experienced/are experiencing prolonged stress or trauma. while daydreaming can be normal, daydreaming becomes an issue when it interferes with your daily life and/or becomes a form of dissociation. im not definitively saying that this is what you’re experiencing, but look into it :)

Anonymous

#3 13w

Awesome, I looked into it and it ticks every box, then I see the mental disorders that are common w having this “anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, and dissociative disorders” which Ive got a couple of those in there so for anyone else interested this is what Harvards theory is^ https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/maladaptive-daydreaming-what-it-is-and-how-to-stop-it