Pam Kowalczyk struggles with the genetic condition PKU, which prevents the body from processing protein Her adopted daughter, Kelsey, has a more severe form of PKU because she was not properly treated ...

Schizophrenia involves periods of psychosis, including hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking that distort a person’s sense of reality. Schizoid personality disorder is a long-standing ...

Like everyone, women often have unique preferences for self-expression and individual priorities. However, society often expects them to conform to universal, rigid standards that may not align with ...

Everyone's diagnosing everyone with narcissism on the thinnest of criteria these days, but it turns out there is one way to detect a potential personality disorder in a person: their speech patterns.

Charlotte Entwistle has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Leverhulme Trust. Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s ...

Grace Meyers from Michigan is living with Marfan syndrome. The inherited disorder affects someone's connective tissue, according to the Mayo Clinic. For Grace, this comes with several life-threatening ...

The first time I saw Cecilia, I was giving a talk about career development at a local charity for young women. Cecilia was a decade younger, soft-spoken, and brimming with apparent vulnerability. She ...

Personality disorder (PD) discharges occupy a shadow zone in military separations. Unlike disciplinary discharges or those for willful misconduct, PD discharges are cloaked in medical terminology – ...