PDNOS = Personality Disorder not otherwise specified.
I've heard of it but never got that particular diagnosis. Then again, maybe my doctor just didn't get around to not specifying to me.
I do have what was called DDNOS and I can't get used to what mine is called since they re-mangled it in the DSM-5, but.. oh yeah, it's OSDD, Other Specified Dissociative Disorder. I guess I was upgraded.. from dissociative NOT otherwise specified, to SPECIFIED! Even though it's still just one of a few "others" that also didn't warrant their own manual entry. Specified but not special. Specific miscellaneous. But I digress. 
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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