 Though maladaptive daydreaming is not yet an officially recognized psychiatric problem, meaning that people cannot be officially diagnosed with it yet, it has spawned numerous online and real-world support groups since Somer first identified the phenomenon in 2002.There is a large and growing number of online international maladaptive daydreaming groups that provide information and peer-support, on which individuals profess to have been secretly suffering from maladaptive daydreaming for years.The grass-root effort by sufferers to increase awareness of their condition manifested itself in a global spontaneous effort to translate the 16-item maladaptive daydreaming scale, MDS-16.