Complex Dissociative Disorder

Complex Dissociative Disorder:

Complex Dissociative Disorder(s), often shortened to CDD or CDDs, refers to all Dissociative Disorders (DDs) known to induce multiple selves within one body. Medical multiplicity has existed within and parallel to the plural community, named for the then diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder.

One study defines CDDs as including Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder Type-1 (OSDD-1). Another study mentions Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified Example-1 (DDNOS-1). First Person Plural's legacy website also talks about the concept, in which it mentions DID, DDNOS, and OSDD. Other CDDs include Partial Dissociative Identity Disorder (P-DID), from the ICD rather than the DSM, and some cases of UDD , diagnosed when the clinician is unable to differentiate beyond the DDs.

This term is often used within plural spaces to explain or define disordered systems specifically, as well as by medical multiples (who may not consider themselves plural) and those who have achieved final fusion (which was required early in CDD treatment), who may still refer to themselves having a CDD or having past experiences with plurality or a CDD.

Related Terms
Due to the nature of this term being psychiatric in nature it is more commonly associated with the experiences of systems who have what are more commonly in plural spaces referred to as DID or OSDD. Forms of disordered plurality.