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 ...

Living with chronic illness often means living in a body that hurts. The pain can be searing or dull; intermittent or constant; affecting the body as a whole or specific body parts. Experiencing pain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you dissociate, you become so absorbed in an activity that you lose track of time. Marc Dufresne/Getty Images In the early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spring Toan/Pexels You’re scrolling through social media and, (seemingly) suddenly, two hours have passed. What happened?

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 ...

Have you ever gone on autopilot and forgotten parts of a routine drive home, mentally checked out during a stressful moment, or zoned out after an all-nighter? Experiences like these fall under the ...

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 ...

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.