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Differential diagnosis between maladaptive daydreaming and ADHD: Immersive daydreaming is not simply inattention.
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- High functioning, yet high suffering - the need to incorporate invisible struggles in adult ADHD diagnostic assessment/criteria.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Introducing the addictive daydreaming scale: development and Polish validation of the ADS-20 and ADS-5.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Maladaptive daydreaming (MD), a syndrome considered by dissociation researchers to represent a dissociative disorder, entails excessive, addictive immersion into narrative and emotional fantasies, impairing functioning and increasing distress. People with MD often meet the criteria for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as addictive and immersive daydreaming causes inattention. Conversely, most people with ADHD do not suffer from MD, yet commonly score highly on the MD self-report screener, questioning the reliability of MD and ADHD symptom checklists. We examined whether assessing a mental pattern of immersive daydreaming improves the reliability of MD classification. A sample of 156 adults comprising four groups: ADHD (
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