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Originally Posted by dexter
I look at a diagnosis not as a label but as a group of symptoms that that name identifies, to give aid in treating that group of symptoms. i.e. if a person is diagnosed with depression, there is a course of treatment and medications that is known to help for that, but if the diagnosis is bipolar, some of the derpression treatments are not the best coarse so something else is recommended.
NOS I think just means that the symptoms don't really fit into one package or another but span many. Therefore instead of forcing treatment into a set good for one or the other I would think a diagnosis of NOS means more focus on the groups of symptoms themselves rather on a pre-established label.
I was in a DBT program and found it quite effective for me. If they are working toward relieving your symptoms keep working on it, maybe you can look for some different/new DBT skills to build on the ones you have, or some other types of skills building on the successful of DBT.
Good luck Leomama
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Not in Dbt anymore graduated a couple of years ago. I'm now doing CBT with a new therapist and working on a list of cognitive distortions.
My ex, his brother and possibly his niece have a dx of bipolar.
My daughter is only 15 and does not have a dx of bipolar although my t feels she may have that. I have 2 lists of providers for my d. I haven't started making phone calls yet because getting my d into treatment is very hard. She's had some therapy and some substance abuse counseling. She also has a dx of substance abuse. She's already overdosed on alcohol once and ended up in the ER.
The substance abuse counselor felt my d needed intensive outpatient treatment but I couldn't get it for her because she's not on probation. I can talk more about that on another forum. The police think she's self medicating due to anxiety. Her father self medicates his bipolar and refuses treatment. It's complicated .
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