The study and comparison of excessively mind wandering phenomania in patiens diagnosed adult attetntion deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder

We aimed to explore and compare excessively mind wandering phenomena observed in adult ADHD and bipolar disorder patients . İn order to asses "mind wandering" Excessively Mind Wandering Scale has been used. This scale was developed by Philip Asherson in 2016. The transliteral eqiuvalence, validity and turkish norm study has been performed previoulsy by researcher (Günay Aksoy ve diğerleri, 2019) and also datas of of the validity and norm study is also presented here. İn order to compare excessively mind wandering phenomena in Adult ADHD and Bipolar Disorder, 93 patients diagnosed as Adult Adhd were compared with 85 patients diagnosed with Bipolar Disoder in remission in psychiatry outpatient setting and randomly selected 111 healthy controls were assesed. Comparison of the results from this 3 group revealed that excessive mind were statsitically significantly common in Adult ADHD compared with healthy controls imposing highly discriminatory for this disorder wheras excesively mind wandering were not significantly correlated with scores obtained both form Bipolar Disorder and Healthy Control (p=,268; p>,05). Mind wandering can be proposed as a discriminatory phenomna observed in Adult ADHD. Key Words: Adult Attenton Deficit Hyperactivity Diosrder, Bipolar Disorder ; Excessively Mind Wandering