Schizophrenia masquerading as Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative symptoms can dominate the clinical picture in many psychiatric conditions and possess a huge challenge to the clinicians in management. We present a case report of a female with a strong family history of schizophrenia who initially presented with features suggestive of dissociative identity disorder, which is itself a rare clinical entity, was later diagnosed to have schizophrenia. Authors would like to emphasise that clinicians should have a high index of suspicion for schizophrenia when a patient with a strong genetic loading for schizophrenia presents with dissociative symptoms as early treatment enhances the prognosis.