Maria Cassano had a dissociative disorder for 20 years, and had no idea because she thought she was just stressed out.

Many medical terms have evolved or changed over the years to reflect advancements in medical knowledge or to reduce stigma. For example, what was once called consumption is now known to be ...

Integration/fusion is not just healing; it’s disruption, grief, and becoming. A raw look at what integration in dissociative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The signature of dissociation is a fuzzy state of absentee consciousness, a trance-like quality where there seems to be nobody ...

Dissociation has made it into the meme hall of fame, appearing in innumerable posts about situations in which we might feel overwhelmed to the point of mentally escaping somewhere else. It’s a ...

Normal dissociative processes aid us in imaginative creativity, but they also promote cognitive error—in criminal justice, ...

I learned how to dissociate at seven years old. My older brother, Scott, developed bipolar disorder when he hit puberty. After his first stint in an inpatient facility, he refused further treatment, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another medical name that's been changed is dissociative identity disorder – a condition that affects only about 1.5% of people ...