dissociative disorder

noun

, Psychiatry.

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

dissociative disorder

noun

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

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 was experiencing a form of dissociative disorder — an extraordinary mechanism of protection and survival that unfortunately might also have painful and disruptive repercussions.

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