But how can anyone understand dissociative identity disorder if they don’t live with it and the only thing they have been led to believe is that people who suffer are crazy, inept, or ...

The effectiveness of treatments for dissociative disorders has not been studied except in individual case studies. But generally, treatment needs to be long term – that is, it may take many years.

Formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a condition in which a person has two or more distinct identity or personality states, which may alternate ...

Pate is living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), a shocking diagnosis her therapist made in 2002. “She said it’s what was called Multiple Personality Disorder,” Pate remembers.

I'm 52 years old now, and I spent most of my life living as multiple, with what is technically called dissociative identity disorder (DID). I was officially diagnosed in early 2002, when I was in ...

A woman who suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID) has told her experience of sharing her body with 50 different personalities. Mel Lodge was four-years-old when she first started to ...

Dissociative identity disorder, the mental health condition that used to be called multiple personality disorder, impacts up to two percent of the population and is often widely misunderstood.

There are a lot of movies and TV shows about it. -- Anon. Answer: Most people will be more familiar with dissociative identity disorder’s former name: multiple personality disorder.

While diagnoses of dissociative identity disorder (DID) are rare, this condition means someone experiences more than one distinct identity. Read on to learn about the signs, symptoms and treatments.