DID and schizophrenia are different conditions with some overlapping symptoms. People with DID experience multiple identities or personalities, while people with schizophrenia do not Dissociative ...

In psychiatry, there’s no more controversial diagnosis than dissociative identity disorder (DID), the disorder formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). First appearing in the third ...

Sarah Schuster has a journalism degree from Syracuse University. She spent seven years helping people tell their mental health stories at The Mighty, and is currently pursing a master's in social work ...

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 ...

Spurred by her past struggles with dissociative identity disorder, she has devoted her professional life to studying it. Credit...Illustration by Moonassi Supported by By Maggie Jones Maggie Jones ...

Trauma can cause dissociative symptoms - such as having an out-of-body experience, or feeling emotionally numb - that may help an individual cope in the short term but can have negative impacts if the ...