Dissociation is a common symptom in borderline personality disorder and is associated with an increased risk of suicidality and self-harm. Dialectical behavior therapist Anne Krause-Utz has written a ...

Living with chronic illness often means living in a body that hurts. The pain can be searing or dull; intermittent or constant; affecting the body as a whole or specific body parts. Experiencing pain ...

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a New York-based science journalist whose work has appeared in Health, Live Science, and Discover Magazine, among other publications. She holds a master's degree in psychology ...

This is part 1 in a series about rethinking the trauma response. The history of the study of trauma has included many missteps and misunderstandings and it has been difficult to shake these incorrect ...

You call your teen's name, but they don't respond. They're staring past you. You call again, louder this time. Nothing—how rude. But what if they're zoning out? For some teens, this can be a sign of ...

Have you ever gone on autopilot and forgotten parts of a routine drive home, mentally checked out during a stressful moment, or zoned out after an all-nighter? Experiences like these fall under the ...

Dissociation is more than a buzzword on social media. While the term is sometimes tossed around to describe feeling temporarily checked out, dissociation is a very real process that involves a serious ...

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a condition in which an individual has two or more distinct personality states or identities. It was previously known as multiple personality disorder. A person ...

Exposure to traumatic events is all too common, increasing the risk for a range of significant consequences affecting health and well-being. In recent years, new reports of incidents of mass ...

Dissociative amnesia causes memory loss, often due to severe stress or trauma. People may not remember important information about themselves or things that have happened to them. For example, the ...

When you dissociate, you become so absorbed in an activity that you lose track of time. Marc Dufresne/Getty Images In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I had an unfortunate Saturday routine. I ...

You call your teen’s name, but they don’t respond. They’re staring past you. You call again, louder this time. Nothing – how rude. But what if they’re zoning out? For some teens, this can be a sign of ...