If you've ever felt disconnected from the world when you're anxious, you've probably wondered how to stop dissociating because of anxiety. Dissociation anxiety is not a specific diagnosis or set of ...

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 ...

You’re scrolling through social media and, (seemingly) suddenly, two hours have passed. What happened? According to researchers at the University of Washington, you might have been dissociating. Which ...

It’s the disorder that robs people of their ability to feel whole. When it comes to the disorder that can splinter people into discrete and fractious personalities, it’s important to note that this ...

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 ...

Have you ever felt detached from your surroundings, like you were watching your life unfold from a distance instead of living it? This experience, known as dissociation, can feel disorienting and ...

Get the Well Enough newsletter by Emilie Lavinia and make sense of the wild world of wellness You call your teen’s name, but they don’t respond. They’re staring past you. You call again, louder this ...

Trauma can cause dissociative symptoms - such as having an out-of-body experience, or feeling emotionally numb - that may help an individual cope in the short term but can have negative impacts if the ...

Dissociative fugue is when a person’s mind detaches from reality, causing a state of temporary memory loss. Often, people in this state will go somewhere else and later have no memory of how they got ...