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r/Dissociation↗

In psychology, dissociation is any of a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experience. This includes Functional Neurological Symptoms (formerly known as conversion disorder). The major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involves a detachment from reality, rather than a loss of reality as in psychosis.

40k subscribers276 posts / mo in Sep 2026244 authors / mosince 2013

r/Dissociation has 40k members (+15% over the last 12 months). It gets about 276 posts a month from 244 people. Top topics: Pain and Poetry, Self Portraits and Empathy Discussions.

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How r/Dissociation has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+15%in 12 months · +3.2% in 3 months · +0.9% in 1 month
Oct 202640k
Growing40k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/Dissociation

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+8.2%vs Sep 2025 · +24% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026276
BusierPeaked at 342 in Jul 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/Dissociation

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Pain and Poetry0.2%
  2. Self Portraits<0.1%
  3. Empathy Discussions<0.1%
  4. Public Speaking Anxiety<0.1%
  5. Poetry Sharing<0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Substack
  2. Qualtrics
  3. Spotify
  4. TikTok
  5. DID-Research

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research