FREE practical guide - How to overcome daydreaming urges

This simple, evidence-based resource is designed to help you overcome your daydreaming urges.

Download a FREE workbook to get started

This resource is designed to assess and build your motivation to get started on overcoming maladaptive daydreaming.

Downloadable FREE resources

MD Relapse prevention plan after a period of management of symptoms

This tool can support you to make a plan around your warning signs and facilitates planning for the future.

MD monitoring form

This resource is designed to get an understanding of your daydreaming activity, habits, times when it occurs, duration and the impact of the environment and emotional states on your daydreaming.

FREE Coping workbook

This worksheet is designed to help you on those difficult days by utilising coping questions. These questions aim to guide your thoughts, help you gain perspective, and find practical ways to address challenges linked to MD. Remember, tough days are a natural part of making changes, but how you respond to them can greatly impact your progress.

Change-plan worksheet

This resource is designed based on motivational interviewing theory assessing your readiness for change to work on your daydreaming.

Read through this presentation about maladaptive daydreaming

Publications

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Why Do Daydreams Feel Real?

Read my research-based blog post that I wrote for the International Society for Maladaptive Daydreaming (ISMDR) about why daydreams feel real to us.

Access at: https://maladaptivedaydreamingsociety.com/why-do-daydreams-feel-real/

“Peeling Back Another Layer of Yourself”: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of disclosures about maladaptive daydreaming

Fischera, Lucas & Griffiths (2025)

I've published my study on the disclosures of people with maladaptive daydreaming study with Open Access, which means anyone can read the study here.