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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Psychiatry, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming Yunnan 650101, China.
• ² Affiliated Wuhan Mental Health Center, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430012, China; City University of Macao, Macao, China.
• ³ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200120, China.
• ⁴ Peking University Sixth Hospital, Peking University Institute of Mental Health, Beijing 100191, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
• ⁵ Department of Clinical Psychology, Pudong New Area Mental Health Center, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 200124, China.
• ⁶ The National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Beijing Key Laboratory of Mental Disorders & Advanced Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection, Beijing, China; Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
• ⁷ Clinical Psychology Department, Wuhan Mental Health Center, Gongnongbing Road 125, Wuhan, Hubei 430012, China.
• ⁸ Transparent Mental Health Institute, Rapenburg 26, 2311 EW Leiden, Netherlands.
• ⁹ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200120, China; Pudong New Area Mental Health Center, Tongji University School of Medicine, China.
• ¹⁰ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200120, China. Electronic address: kangchuanyuan@tongji.edu.cn.