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Maladaptive daydreaming should be included as a dissociative disorder in psychiatric manuals, Ben-Gurion University of the ...

Language matters when interacting with patients who have conditions such as long COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and dysautonomia.

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