“Maladaptive daydreaming is an independent mental phenomenon, which often creates a deficit in attention as a side-effect, causing MDers in some cases to meet criteria for ADHD, but not necessarily vice versa.”
, MD, depression, loneliness, and low self-esteem. Of those adults, 20.5% met the proposed diagnostic criteria for MD; those individuals showed significantly higher rates of depression, loneliness, and lower self-esteem than those adults with ADHD who did not meet the criteria for an MD diagnosis.
“Maladaptive daydreaming is an independent mental phenomenon, which often creates a deficit in attention as a side-effect, causing MDers in some cases to meet criteria for, but not necessarily vice versa,” the authors said. “Moreover, we found that ADHD symptoms did not differ in severity across the groups, again supporting the idea that MD is not secondary to ADHD, nor is ADHD a predisposition to MD, but rather, MD is a discrete construct.
The authors would like to see maladaptive daydreaming recognized as a formal psychiatric syndrome and added to the next edition of theTheodor-Katz, N., Somer E., Hesseg R.M., Soffer-Dudek, N. . Could immersive daydreaming underlie a deficit in attention? The prevalence and characteristics of maladaptive daydreaming in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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