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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...