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Quantifying the burden of mental disorders is essential, yet inherently reductive. Metrics such as disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) and years lived with disability (YLDs) provide a highly important common framework for comparing diseases across settings, but they only partly reflect lived experience. Such figures

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