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Originally Posted by Lilfae
I'm currently being examined for PTSD, and today was told that they have given me a temporary diagnosis: ICD F43.8 Other specified reactions to severe stress. Does any of you know this diagnosis? Googleing it, I couldn't find much useful.
My therapist told me that when a patient have been struggling with symptoms for many years, they usually change the diagnosis from PTSD to this one. She also told me that in the new ICD version, nr 11, Complex PTSD will finally be included as a separate diagnosis, but that isn't implemented in Norway yet. But when it is, they might use that on me instead.
I've read a lot about PTSD (complex and "normal"), but I don't know this one at all..
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short version any disorder labeled Other Specified.... has their own batch of mental disorders that only treatment providers have access to...
example I have OSDD (other Specified Dissociative Disorder). one of my OSDD disorder labels is Macropsia.
it is wrote on my file like so..........OSDD - Macropsia
think of Other Specified...as being its own category and inside that category are many mental disorder labels that are not public knowledge or publicly accessible. you only find out which Other Specified Disorder when your treatment provider diagnoses you with OS disorders.
the specified in this is that treatment providers must put on your files a diagnosis from their private listing of OS disorders and must tell you which one you have, and supply you with the information that you need to understand your other specified disorder.
my suggestion is talk with your treatment provider. they will be able to tell you whether its the one for cultural nerve syndrome, adjustment disorder syndrome bereivement syndrome or one of the psychosis containing disorders
or others on the list.
my point is you wont know which one you have or what you are looking for until you talk with your treatment provider.
what I can tell you is that in the USA complex PTSD is called by many different disorders depending upon ones own combination or symptoms, problems and what triggers the symptoms and problems to be activated. example my combination of Complex PTSD problems adds up to Acute Stress Disorder, for someone else I know it adds up to an anxiety/ phobia disorder.
please talk with your treatment providers if this continues to bother you, they will be able to answer all your diagnostic questions.