disassociation

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Until now, Schoenbrun has specialized in stories about pop-cultural disassociation, people so isolated by their niche fandoms that they spend more time fixated on fictional characters than living their own lives.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Diagnosed with anxiety at eight and depression at 14, Melissa says she feels a level of disassociation from her life before.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

But Gliser said that claim was “likely inaccurate and untrue” since Webster did not have a long history of trauma that could cause disassociation to that degree.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023

Other medications to treat his depression had made him feel unlike himself, exacerbating symptoms including confusion and disassociation, but he has not had any adverse side effects from ketamine, Anthony said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022

But this union and disassociation is just what occurs as the foundation of respiration.

From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)