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 ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

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 ...

A visual representation of split personality disorder. When people hear the word "split personality", they often tend to link it with the movies and the vision of a person flipping between the two ...

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When experiences like long-term abuse or neglect prove too traumatic to bear, some people cope with their distress by involuntarily escaping reality, or dissociating. Dissociation is a mental process ...

Cameron West, who lives with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), revealed childhood sexual abuse by his grandmother. Rikki, West’s wife, helped manage his breakdown and supported their family ...

Her name is Alice, at least that is the name I’m using in this blog. I have known her since 1966. She was 16. I didn’t know much about multiple personalities at that time nor was I sure I wanted to ...

A new mum who lives with 20 ‘alternative personalities’ in her mind said they work as a “team” to help her raise her son.

Mental disorder trajectories vary significantly by age and sex, with younger patients experiencing more diagnostic shifts and psychiatric contacts.