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Maladaptive Daydreaming: What to Know About This Coping Mechanism For Early Trauma
“There were never two people more… into The Cure,” the best man at our wedding drunkenly crooned. Besides superior taste in music, we also had early childhood trauma and a penchant for bad coping mechanisms in common. Within days of knowing each other, we already shared an intimate drug bender, complete with subsequent depression crash, culminating in him adding me to his Top 8 on Myspace: a significant gesture in those days.