I don’t really know where else in the forums this could go, it’s so wide reaching and can affect anyone that frequents any single subforum so I figure here is best but considered somewhere in “treatments” because I am talking about codes in the DSM and ICD, but it’s not really about the codes, more the stories around them/after them.

Last week in therapy I was talking about moving, and she mentioned that within diagnostic manuals like the DSM and ICD there are codes for environmental stressors that impede treatment (and mentioned I had more than usual). V Codes (DSM-5) & Z Codes (ICD-10) - PsychDB

I looked them up and I never really thought about how just some of those things don’t necessarily mean someone has some lifelong mental disorder, but “shytty life syndrome” as my hospital NP called it.

Just skimming the incomplete list here (okay, I’m on a phone and messed that up the link is above and I’m being a little too lazy to fix it), I knocked off at least four in the past year or so from my list just from no more dad and having my own place now.

I don’t want to say moving cured me (I mean, I did start a new ADHD med the day I moved and it is definitely the strongest stimulant I’ve been prescribed so being calm and focused definitely helps), but also I know if I wouldn’t get kicked out, I would be getting high af right now.

Anyone else have a significant problem that falls under these codes that managed to “fix” it and just feel (is there a stronger synonym for “relief”? Put that word here!)? Just really interested if others may have felt beyond fked but some life change happened and suddenly air is breathable again.
(I do know a lot of those codes involve history or things that require really drastic measures to change, but I’m referring to the ones referring to things like homelessness, poverty, and ongoing abuse)