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Originally Posted by zoiecat
It is my understanding that if you're in the US and you're using insurance they have to use the DSM codes to have insurance pay that being said they should be using DSM criteria to meet those diagnosis. I understand your concern about being labeled I'm in the same boat my psychiatrist disagrees with my therapist and they reported two different diagnosis to my insurance company but my insurance company is the only one that sees that diagnosis besides my mental health Team so I'm not really all that concerned it just aggravates me that the psychiatrist is saying I have something that I do not believe I have.
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I would be concerned that a false diagnosis was on my insurance record, particularly if it was stigmatizing. There have been horror stories about mental health patients showing up the ER with something totally unrelated - lije a broken ankle - and getting treated like **** because the staff could see their electronic health records and learned of their mental illness. Maybe that wasn't supposed to happen, but anytime you have a huge faceless impersonalized bureaucracy things like this can happen, as even my therapists I used insurance for admitted.
OP - many therapists while giving insurance diagnosis codes will use less stigmatizing ones, like adjustment disorder, depression, PTSD, partly because of the scenario mentioned above. So right away I don't like that she did that, and second - when she was just farting around in her own head, she diagnosed by her criteria, but to get paid she used DSM's? What a hypocrite.
And, it sounds like she offered you absolutely no guidance or support in dealing with her "diagnosis." She's right that statistics are not definitive, but it was on her to offer you reassurance about them.
I'd dump her if you can, and yeah, I might consult a lawyer too.