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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Dissociative identity disorder involves two or more distinct personality states with gaps in recall of everyday events.

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A person cannot account for periods of time during which others report they behaved as someone else.

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The diagnosis is genuinely contested, with disagreement over whether it arises from trauma or from clinical suggestion.