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One might say that the results of childhood physical abuse are apparent to outsiders, but the results of childhood sexual abuse resulting in Dissociative Identity Disorder are also readily apparent to others in public.
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Though Tara's story is fictional, scripted for a new Showtime television series, her disorder is a reality for those diagnosed with what is formally called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
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Not all their machinations to gain fame and money can detract from Shirley's appreciation of life as a whole person or her contribution to this disorder now called Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Patrick Suraci: Sybil in Her Own Words Patrick Suraci 2011
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Not all their machinations to gain fame and money can detract from Shirley's appreciation of life as a whole person or her contribution to this disorder now called Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Patrick Suraci: Sybil in Her Own Words Patrick Suraci 2011
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It's called Dissociative Disorder now and toddlers are way to young to be diagnosed with it.
It's My 600th Post! jodifur 2008
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But I must congratulate him on having the guts to at least introduce a technically correct term for Multiple Personality Disorder to the mango-people, namely Dissociative Identity Disorder, a refreshing change from Bollywood's age-old obsession with Schizophrenia, which frankly, I was getting bored of.
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I see your Dissociative Identity Disorder is manifesting itself as yet another fake persona.
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They changed the label to "Dissociative Identity Disorder," but a skunk by any other name is still a skunk.
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Toni Collette stars as a mother with Dissociative Identity Disorder whose "alters" or alternate personalities multiply by the season.
TV on DVD 2011
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She is the author of The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder, which tells her story from the time she began to split into parts, through her courageous struggle to put herself back together and finally develop a whole picture of her life for the first time.
New Harbinger: Taking Back My Culture New Harbinger 2012
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