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identity disorder

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identity disorder
n.
A disorder occurring in late adolescence and characterized by feelings of uncertainty and distress due to issues such as long-term goals, sexual orientation and behavior, morality, and religious identification.

identity disorder
Psychiatry Severe subjective distress caused by a child's inability to achieve an integrated sense of self


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WASHINGTON -- Endocrinologists who are caring for transsexuals must confirm that their patients have met diagnostic criteria for gender identity disorder before beginning cross-sex hormonal treatment or delaying pubertal development, according to a draft of new treatment guidelines issued by the Endocrine Society.
A schoolteacher (Melissa Joan Hart) faces accusations of statutory rape, a mother (Cynthia Nixon) with dissociative identity disorder is suspected of harming her daughter, and a closeted professional football star tries to prove his innocence when he becomes the prime suspect for the murder of his investment-banker lover.
Almost every person who develops Dissociative Identity Disorder has suffered some form of abuse.
 
 
 
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