DO YOU EVER zone out while tackling a boring task? Take your mind elsewhere to power through a difficult workout? Or, have you ever driven home safely without any recollection of how you got there? If ...

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. Which ...

For some teens, this can be a sign of dissociation, a temporary disconnection from thoughts, feelings, body or surroundings.

Think about all the times you’ve had to read a text over because your mind was elsewhere, or you pulled into your driveway with no memory of the actual drive home. That’s dissociation and it happens ...

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 ...

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Think about all the times you’ve had to read a text over because your mind was elsewhere, or you pulled into your driveway with no memory of the actual drive home. That’s dissociation and it happens ...