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Daydreaming Minds,
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📝📖 Virtual Silent Read & Write Hour for Maladaptive Daydreamers ✨

📅 Date: 28/04/2025
⏰ Time: 11 am EST / 4pm GMT
🖥️ Online. Link Provided Upon Registration: Book your free ticket now!

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Is Maladaptive Daydreaming Sabotaging Your Studies?

A Panel on Managing Maladaptive Daydreaming for Academic Success

Date: Monday, May 5th

Time: 4:00PM EST

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Join a groundbreaking new study from Professor Eli Somer's research team

We’re inviting members of the MD community to take part in exciting new research conducted in Eli Somer’s lab.

This study explores how childhood family experiences, attachment styles, and personality traits may be linked to MD. 

Paper
New Scientific “Position Paper” Advocates for Maladaptive Daydreaming to be Recognized as a Dissociative Disorder

A groundbreaking contribution to psychiatric literature calls for a pivotal change in the diagnosis and classification of dissociative disorders.

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Why Do Daydreams Feel Real?

The Impact of Our Inner Worlds and How to Improve Our Well-Being
“Is this all real? Or is it just happening inside my head?” Harry Potter asks Dumbledore in The Deathly Hallows. Dumbledore’s reply is simple yet profound: “Of course, it’s happening inside your head, Harry. Why should that mean that it’s not real?”

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The International Society for Maladaptive Daydreaming

The ISMD is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons with Maladaptive Daydreaming (MD) through community engagement, advocacy, raising public awareness, and advancing professional education.

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