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 ...

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 ...

People are turning to social media to define dissociative disorders, but those portrayals aren’t always accurate. Here is a primer. By Christina Caron Have you ever zoned out? Maybe you have ...

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 ...

A New Zealand woman has found love and happiness, even as she navigates life with 93 alternative personalities. Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, ...

Dissociative identity disorder is a myth. No, it’s a real mental illness. No, it’s a metaphor for genuine pain and suffering, shaped by a therapist or the media. What are we supposed to believe? The ...

Today’s fast-paced and high-pressure world is believed to be one of the major factors responsible for the increasing cases of ...

AnnaLynne McCord is opening up about her experience with dissociative identity disorder. The Atlanta, Georgia, native rose to fame in the early 2000s starring in TV series like American Heiress and ...

Sydney Hegele, the author of The Pump, recently published a clear-eyed essay about falling in love after their diagnosis with dissociative identity disorder (DID), still widely known by its former ...