According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) «is a dissociative disorder involving a disturbance of identity in which two or more separate and
distinct personality states (or identities) control the individual's behavior at different times.
Not exact matches
DID is characterised by the presence of two or more
distinct «identities» or «
personality states» — each with their own perception of the environment and themselves.
Even the revised fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual, published in 2000, specifies the core features of the disorder as the «presence of two or more
distinct identities or
personality states.»
We have a federal government that unites 50 sovereign
states, each with their own laws and
distinct personalities.
The figures in the video exist in a
state of dissociative identity disorder, characterized by the appearance of several very
distinct identities such as feminist author and activist Bell Hooks, YouTube
personality and ballroom legend Samantha James Revlon and Trans Activist Janet Mock.
In its Judgment of 20 September 2012 in case T ‑ 154 / 10 French Republic vs. European Commission, the General Court of the EU (GC) has established a new test of «bankruptcy - proofness» as an advantage contrary to Article 107 (1) TFEU that may generate a significant shake up in the control of
State aid granted (implicitly) to establishments of an industrial and commercial character (EICC, or EPIC in their French acronym)-- ie legal entities governed by public law which have
distinct legal
personality from the
State, financial independence and certain special powers, including the performance of one or more public service tasks.