I have been recently diagnosed with dissociative disorder (i'm not sure what DID stands for ...is it dissociative identitiy disorder?) and I have read a little bit about it. My therapist has told me I lose time and that she didn't want to say it but she says I am like two different people at times...I think she did not want to scare me. I did read up on this disorder and saw that another word for it is multiple personality disorder and wondered if this was another way of putting it to say dissociative disorder....??? I mean is it really multiple personality disorder, is that the real name for it? I am kinda confused. I am bipolar also. This is all very new to me and I'm trying to get some insight on this. If someone could please help me understand more about this, I would appreciate it. Thanks.