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Aug 2026
Navigating the diagnostic challenges of maladaptive daydreaming: a case report of ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic obsessive fantasies with functional impairment in a 17-year-old
Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) is an emerging and insufficiently recognized clinical phenomenon characterized by immersive fantasy activity associated with functional impairment. Its overlap with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and schizophrenia spectrum conditions creates signi...
Mahgoub Elrashed, Moustafa Amin, G. Joy et al.
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