dissociative disorder

American  

noun

Psychiatry.

1. a mental disorder, as multiple personality, characterized by sudden temporary alteration in consciousness, identity, or motor behavior.

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dissociative disorder British  

noun

1. psychol an emotional disorder characterized by fugue states or multiple personality

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Example Sentences

Her lawyer has said Snyder had severe depression, borderline personality disorder, dissociative disorder and other mental illness at the time of the homicides.

From Seattle Times

I didn’t want to believe I had a dissociative disorder, and I didn’t want to believe this memory was real.

From Seattle Times

Still, she has trouble trusting people and struggles with post-traumatic stress and dissociative disorder, she said.

From Seattle Times

Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.

From BBC

Henry affirmed that Montgomery has a host of mental health woes – from bipolar disorder, temporal lobe epilepsy, and complex post-traumatic stress disorder to dissociative disorder, psychosis, traumatic brain injury and possibly fetal alcohol syndrome.

From Fox News