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?

Do parents abused as children become child abusers? Many interacting factors increase risk for intergenerational maltreatment ...

When you hear the word dissociation, it might bring to mind disconnection or trauma. Yet dissociation isn’t always negative. It’s an essential part of a healthy, adaptive mind. It allows us to fluidly ...

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 ...

Dissociation is a common symptom in borderline personality disorder and is associated with an increased risk of suicidality and self-harm. Dialectical behavior therapist Anne Krause-Utz has written a ...

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 ...

You’re in the middle of a meeting and your boss asks for your opinion on the topic at hand. There’s just one problem: You have absolutely no idea what topic that is. Maybe some bad news has caused you ...

Reviewed by Nicole Foubister, MD, NYU Child Study Center, and Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU College of Arts & Science, New York, NY A new study from Australia shows that ...

Dissociation refers to the feeling of being disconnected from the situation, or a person, or from the present. It can be a trauma response. Sometimes, when we are brought up in dysfunctional families ...