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dissociative identity disorder

NOUN
disorder involving two or more distinct personalities
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Conditions like dissociative identity disorder may dictate multiple support animals, and the growth in pet psychologists portends a burgeoning trend of emotionally affected pets needing their own support animals.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

One of the main protagonists in “The Dark Tower” series, Susannah Dean, is a Black woman with dissociative identity disorder.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2025

But the fascinating account of “Ella” by therapist and anthropologist Rebecca J. Lester explains how dissociative identity disorder can develop and manifest.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

Within just a few years, however, multiple personality disorder was renamed dissociative identity disorder, a change that was “more than an act of diagnostic housecleaning,” he wrote.

From New York Times • May 28, 2023

In another ad, Walker accused Warnock of running a “nasty, dishonest campaign” and cast himself as being upfront about his past problems, including his diagnosis with dissociative identity disorder, in his 2008 memoir, “Breaking Free.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022




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