New research suggests that the effects may be even deeper, linking ghosting and stress to maladaptive daydreaming and vulnerable narcissism. The study was published in the journal Psychology of ...

but you can have too much of a good thing. In 2002, Eli Somer coined the term “maladaptive daydreaming” for people whose daydreaming interfered with their reality in unhelpful ways.

These began early in life and, over time, became part of their maladaptive life responses ... creativity and daydreaming are necessary for taking time out to focus on the inner life and what ...

I’d let him sneak into my bedroom on the top floor of my family’s rambling farmhouse.... By homeroom the next morning, it was ...