Dissociation is a mental disorder that has become a meme on social networks. It is a defense mechanism and a potential disorder after traumatic events.

“I dissociate when I am faced with a stimulus in which I am not able to organize my ideas,” says Elena González, 26. The buzz of the term has, therefore, become a double-edged sword: it is made visible at the same time that it becomes a fashionable catchphrase, as anxiety was.