Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.

affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"

Although one must struggle against the centripetal forces of traction (all those entities which would hold us back, keep us in our place), the centrifugal forces of distraction (all those phenomena which would shatter our hard-won state of lucid mindfulness) can be equally as powerful. See: ABSENTMINDED, CAPRICIOUS, COAST, DESULTORY, INATTENTIVE.

To sidetrack or divert from one activity, direction, and/or issue to another.(one does distraction, one became distracted) (somewhere, possibly, his/her thought)

having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety