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Old Mar 22, 2023, 04:25 PM
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Bipolar NOS, what is it?

This afternoon I have a lot of free time. So this is the day I have the opportunity to write about it, in case somebody is interested and don't know so much about it.

Until now I have seen two of us here, but there may be more.

Fist: The diagnose Bibolar NOS (Bipolar Not Otherwise Specified) doesn't excist any more. It was a DSM IV diagnose.

For the moment it is DSM 5 (American) and ICD 10 (European) that is in use. Interesting that Europe and America have their own versions. One should believe that a MI is the same in both regions. But they have decided to use their own versions.

In DSM 5 The Bipolar NOS is now numbered 296.80 and called Unspesified Bipolar and Related Disorder and is used for symptoms "caracteristic of bipolar and related disorder that cause clinically significant distress" in several areas. (Work, Social and more).

In ICD 10 The Bipolar NOS is now numbered F34,9 and called Persistent mood [affective] disorder, unspecified.

Well as some of us learned when we were children: "A loved child has many names". So we who are in these categories must be highly loved.

I wanted to take it up because that diagnose does not mean that we suffer less than others in the Bipolar specter, but there is something with us that makes it difficult for the clinican to put us into a proper Bipolar category.

When it comes to me, however, it is the number of required days for the "highs" that makes it difficult to set a full Bipolar disorder diagnose. The required days for Hypomania is 4 days. So if one has only one day feeling "high" in between, that day is just as terrible as it is for those with the required four days, especially if there is tension in it as well.

I have most of the depressions. Many of you have probably noticed that already since I, not too long ago, wrote posts where I wondered if I had the right to be here (if I was good enough for you since my diagnosis was neither I nor II). My depressions have been of all kinds from mild to severe.

Well, that was that! I had the time to do it today.

After today I am not so sure that I will have the time to be here so often as before. It takes so much time to be here and comfort others as well as wanting comfort for oneself. I have made a plan to follow in the coming weeks. My therapist knows about my plan. I need to use my time well to overcome my sufferings and be able to go on with my life. Life has much to give even to the elderly. When I am togheter with my best friends, we laugh a lot ...

NB Nobody here has hurt me! NB I am not running from something or somebody, but I need to use my time in a beneficial way for myself to recover more (as soon as my arms are fixed).

See you now and then! Under all circumstances I will come and tell the result of the examination of my arms that has caused me so much trouble.
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