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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5242304" data-attributes="member: 177">Yes, but none of them are dissociative identity disorder.  The references I find show DID being that which we used to call MPD - but the disorder is even more complicated than we used to think of MPD.  I recognize MPD is not generally accepted as a diagnosis these days, but since I'm not talking to psychologists, some use of the vernacular seemed appropriate, to give people some handle on the issue that they'd recognize.Okay, now I guess we have to get picky.  I am by no means a mental health professional, but as I understand it, a "feeling that someone was taking over their actions", is not consistent with DID.  DID requires that multiple personality states exist (as well as significant lapses in memory - state A not remembering what happened while state B was dominant).  The feeling that someone else is in control is consistent with several other disorders.</blockquote>