How to Use multiple personality disorder in a Sentence

multiple personality disorder

noun
  • But these different views make Petipa seem to have multiple personality disorder.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • Given the protagonist’s multiple personality disorder, a fine china cup stack is a perfect metaphor for an extreme case of imposter syndrome.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The sister has schizophrenia and bipolar and multiple personality disorders.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Turner studied schizophrenia and multiple personality disorders to prepare for this difficult, volatile role.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Once, Deborah told her daughter she had been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder.
    — TIME.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Following the death of his father, Aaron checked himself into rehab, where physicians diagnosed him with schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Walker has said that he was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, once known as multiple personality disorder.
    — al, 27 May 2022
  • Did Gollum have schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder?
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2016
  • Carter, who was open about his mental health struggles, shared in 2019 that he was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety and depression.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • My mother is a retired professor of philosophy who wrote books about a series of psychiatric conditions — about madness and multiple personality disorder and melancholy and depression.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 18 July 2022
  • Carter had been vocal about his mental health struggles, revealing in 2019 that he had been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, and acute anxiety.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Studies conducted in the last several decades have examined the links between dreams and multiple personality disorder (MPD).
    — Sarah Jay, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Sullivan is a character loosely based on Billy Milligan, who was the first person to successfully use multiple personality disorder as a defense in court.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 8 June 2023
  • But after his 1997 retirement from football, Walker opened up about his struggles with mental illness and multiple personality disorders.
    — John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2019
  • Schizophrenia was the most common diagnosis (25 students), followed by multiple personality disorder (three).
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2014
  • Isaac plays Marc Spector in a Disney + series, which takes inspiration from the modern comics, which depict the character’s struggle with multiple personality disorder.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Walker said had been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, which was previously known as multiple personality disorder.
    — Sara Murray, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Bitcoin’s correlation with global economic conditions suffers from multiple personality disorder, making moves in the price impossible to predict.
    — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking, who died May 10, found new things to say about the reality of everything from multiple personality disorder to race to electrons.
    — Oliver Traldi, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2023
  • Dissociative identity disorder used to be called multiple personality disorder.
    — Maureen Maher, CBS News, 22 July 2021
  • Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, DID is a controversial subject.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Its protagonist, Isaac, struggles with multiple personality disorder.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 6 May 2024
  • Cardenas himself had a history — noted in his jail medical file — of suicide attempts and suffered from several mental conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and multiple personality disorder.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Defense attorneys and a psychologist said in court that Gargiulo has dissociative personality disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
    — CBS News, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Actress Annalynne McCord is speaking out about being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, a mental health condition that was formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Previously known as multiple personality disorder — and often mischaracterized as schizophrenia — DID is a real, clinical mental health diagnosis that Hollywood has often turned to as an engine for heightened drama.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022
  • In 2021, McCord publicly detailed her battle with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
  • In a motion, the state requested an order directing defense attorneys not to mention in the trial’s guilt-innocence phase that Horner has Asperger’s, autism, bipolar or multiple personality disorder, and not to refer to a civil settlement of a lawsuit Athena’s parents reached with FedEx.
    — Emerson Clarridge updated March 31, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The clinical psychiatrist has interviewed more than 20 serial killers, including Arthur Shawcross and Ted Bundy, and believes many serial killers have dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder).
    — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Another defense attorney, Dale Rubin, cited the testimony of a defense psychologist who diagnosed Gargiulo with dissociative personality disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
    — CBS News, 8 Aug. 2019

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