In my previous blog post, I described how the "multiple personalities" and "dissociative identities" of dissociative identity disorder (DID) can be understood as "enactments" within both ...

Myths about DID paint it as a rare, untreatable condition that involves extreme personality changes. In reality, people with DID switch identities because they don't have a single unified identity.

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 ...

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 ...