Books, movies, music, video games, and other media may be a daydreaming trigger.This excessive daydreaming often begins in childhood.Daydreaming excessively in a way that is often compared to an addiction.An extensive fantasy activity that replaces human interaction and/or interferes with academic, interpersonal, or vocational functioning.Sleeping Beauty - Maladaptive Daydreaming Problems with “working memory” (the ability to use information immediately after learning it).Poor “executive functioning” (the ability to understand information and use it to make decisions).Difficulty beginning and sustaining activities.Reduced feelings of pleasure in everyday life.“Flat affect” (reduced expression of emotions via facial expression or voice tone).Thought disorders (unusual or dysfunctional ways of thinking).Loss of, or changes in, one’s system of meanings, which may include a loss of sustaining faith or a sense of hopelessness and despair.Alterations in relations with others, including isolation and withdrawal, persistent distrust, a repeated search for a rescuer, disruption in intimate relationships and repeated failures of self-protection.Varied changes in the perception of the perpetrator, such as attributing total power to the perpetrator (caution: victim’s assessment of power realities may be more realistic than clinician’s), becoming preoccupied with the relationship to the perpetrator, including a preoccupation with revenge, idealization or paradoxical gratitude, a sense of a special relationship with the perpetrator or acceptance of the perpetrator’s belief system or rationalizations.Changes in self-perception, such as a chronic and pervasive sense of helplessness, paralysis of initiative, shame, guilt, self-blame, a sense of defilement or stigma, and a sense of being completely different from other human beings.Variations in consciousness, including forgetting traumatic events (i.e., psychogenic amnesia), reliving experiences (either in the form of intrusive PTSD symptoms or in ruminative preoccupation), or having episodes of dissociation.Situations causing the kind of traumatic stress that can lead to C-PTSD-like symptoms include captivity or entrapment (a situation lacking a viable escape route for the victim), as well as psychological manipulation ( gaslighting and/or false accusations), which can result in a prolonged sense of helplessness and deformation of one’s identity and sense of self.Mental rituals - Endless reviewing of conversations, counting repetitively calling up “good” thoughts to neutralize “bad” thoughts or obsessions or excessive praying and using special words or phrases to neutralize obsessions.Cleaning - Repeatedly washing one’s hands, bathing, or cleaning household items, often for hours at a time.Feeling overly responsible for the safety of others. Excessive concern with order, arrangement, or symmetry.įear that negative or aggressive thoughts or impulses will cause personal harm or harm to a loved one.Constant, irrational worry about dirt, germs, or contamination.24 ◊ Feb ◊ 2016- Snow White - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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