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Old Dec 29, 2017, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Kiya View Post
I didn’t know America calls complex ptsd “acute stress disorder “. That explains my last billing codes. I couldn’t figure it out.
yes. the APA threw out the diagnosis .............Label................of CPTSD back in 2013. they made many new trauma and stress related disorders names and also added CPTSD symptoms / problems to many other mental disorders...

now they do things more individualized based on each persons own combination of symptoms and problems........ for some people like me its now called "Acute Stress Disorder" for some its PTSD with no word complex in front of it, and for others it can be one of the other trauma and stress related disorders or can now be part of their other mental problems like depression, anxiety, ......even dissociative disorders got new disorder names, diagnostics and some disorder labeling threw out.

your treatment provider can tell you why they renamed your CPTSD Acute Stress disorder, and can read more about the trauma and stress related disorders America uses now in the book... the DSM 5