Why Maladaptive Daydreaming Deserves More Attention

About 12 years ago, the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” depicted the push-pull between accepting disappointing real-life experiences and conflating them into imaginary ones. And a 2017 YouTube analysis, currently touting 743,000 views, dives right into the core issue: maladaptive daydreaming—a growing research area since 2002, when the term was first coined by […]