Describe the differences between dissociative amnesia and dissociative identity disorder.?
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ANSWER:
?Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a disorder in which two or more personalities coexist within the same individual; formerly called multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative amnesia is a memory loss of important personal information, not due to substance use or brain injury that causes significant distress or impairs functioning. It may occur with or without dissociative fugue in which person unexpectedly travels away from home with memory loss of identity or other personal information.
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