Dissociative Identity Disorder in a pregnant woman: a case report
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Dissociative Identity Disorder is a rare diagnosis, resulting from criteria present in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders five edition that characterize this disorder as a chronic and uncommon psychiatric condition, which cures with the disruption of the patient's identity, which may form two or more. Amnesias, headaches, divergent and dangerous behaviors are present and described over the years as severely affecting patients, in addition to other major psychiatric disorders. We report the case of a patient with dissociative identity disorder during her second pregnancy.
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