"NOS" stands for "Not Otherwise Specified"

When my anorexia didn't fit the exact specifications of anorexia nervosa, they termed it EDNOS......Eating Disorder Not otherwise specified.

When you don't quite fit the pure DX in the DSM for the diagnoses, they get as close as they can get rather than give no DX at all.

Hope you get a clear understanding of what the NOS is attached to, whether the PTSD, the Depression, or ?.

Know it's a struggle.....I went through a trauma while seeing my pdoc & my therapist that left me with PTSD symptoms....but because I was going through the trauma......PTSD wasn't a possible DX.....but it really messed me up.....still does....but don't have all the symptoms of the normal PTSD in some areas.

Went to one T who commented that the loss of my career that lead to my major depression probably had a huge amount of PTSD tied to that also.....even though it wasn't a life threatening event (it sure felt like it)