Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...

Dissociation is a common symptom in borderline personality disorder and is associated with an increased risk of suicidality ...

In recent years, social media has empowered people who live with conditions that have been historically maligned or misunderstood to share information, whether it be facts about their condition or ...

Histrionic Personality Disorder is characterized by intense emotions and a strong need to be the center of attention. The disorder is part of a group known as cluster B personality disorders, similar ...

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 ...

PARIS — The 2023 Encéphale Congress devoted a session to dissociative identity disorder (DID). It's a fascinating condition that has been depicted in countless movies and TV shows. And while it may be ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In 2015, doctors in Germany reported the ...

This blog post is a review of the book, The Unanswered Self: The Masterson Approach to the Healing of Personality Disorders, by Candace Orcutt, Ph.D. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst James F. Masterson, ...

In a panic, they contacted some online friends they had made on the group-chatting platform Discord, who had been posting about their experience with dissociative identity disorder (DID), known in ...

Some may be experiencing post traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, depression, anxiety, personality disorders, persistent mental illness, chemical dependency, or are struggling with life’s changes. I ...