Dina Cheney has been a writer for more than 20 years. She has authored six cookbooks, including THE NEW MILKS and TASTING CLUB, and written hundreds of articles and recipes for publications, including ...

If you've ever experienced a panic attack, you might have felt as though you were observing yourself from outside or that the world around you wasn't real. These symptoms—referred to as ...

Longstanding feelings of derealization in teenagers may indicate a dissociative condition known as depersonalization/derealization disorder (DPDR). Depersonalization ...

People are turning to social media to define dissociative disorders, but those portrayals aren’t always accurate. Here is a primer. By Christina Caron Have you ever zoned out? Maybe you have ...

The sensation of being detached from your surroundings may point to a hard-to-diagnose condition. By Christina Caron Barrie Miskin was newly pregnant when she noticed her appearance was changing. Dark ...

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term that describes the discomfort you feel when your beliefs don’t line up with your actions. Or it could refer to the tension of holding two conflicting ...

Derealization is when a person experiences unreality or detachment from their surroundings. Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPDR) occurs most often in teenagers. The average age that a ...

Trauma-related dissociation consists of several subtypes, with unique brain signatures depending on type of dissociative disorders, new research suggests. Results from a neuroimaging study showed that ...

I know everything but myself. I know my thoughts. I know my feelings. I know my actions. But I do not know the “I” who thinks these thoughts, feels these feelings and performs these actions. This “I,” ...

“This just doesn’t feel real anymore.” Perhaps that statement echoes an experience you have had recently that felt surreal? For many, this experience of “unreality” became more prolific during 2020 ...

Bowen Yang is sharing a health update. The Saturday Night Live star took to his Instagram Story on Saturday and shared that he's battling "bad bouts of depersonalization" and, as a result, will be ...