Anonymous asked this question on 4/26/2000:

i will like a brief explanation of what is disassociative personality disorder. My husband got that dx.

kinghappy gave this response on 4/26/2000:

dissasciative personality disorder, is another term for multiple personality disorder. charcterized by black outs, loss of time and memory and of course the appearance of other personalities. this is a rare diagnosis, though it is being diagnosed more lately than in the past. are you sure this is his dagnosis, and not another dissociative disorder, they all involve problems with memory and lapse of time, but only dpd has the multiple personality aspect.

The average rating for this answer is 4.

Anonymous rated this answer a 4.