SINGAPORE - Dissociation, a mental phenomenon in which a person detaches from reality, is so common that experts say at least half of the population might have experienced it at some point.
The term has surfaced in a recent hearing of a parliamentary committee looking into the conduct of former Workers' Party MP Raeesah Khan, as a possible explanation for why she might have reported conversations differently from her colleagues' accounts of the same event.
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