[leomama]

Does anyone else have a dx of mood disorder NOS? Me and my teenage daughter have both been diagnosed that with this year. I am now starting to pursue a dx of bipolar for her as she is clearly not depressed. I used to have dysthymia. I don't know what's going on with me now. In this moment I feel very strong anger.
I have done 4 rounds of Dbt so I have the tools to deal with it. I want to take action but there is really no action I can take. A lot of people have hurt me and I'm struggling with vengeance. I don't like this feeling at all.

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[dexter]

I look at a diagnosis not as a label but as a group of symptoms that that name identifies, to give aid in treating that group of symptoms. i.e. if a person is diagnosed with depression, there is a course of treatment and medications that is known to help for that, but if the diagnosis is bipolar, some of the derpression treatments are not the best coarse so something else is recommended.

NOS I think just means that the symptoms don't really fit into one package or another but span many. Therefore instead of forcing treatment into a set good for one or the other I would think a diagnosis of NOS means more focus on the groups of symptoms themselves rather on a pre-established label.

I was in a DBT program and found it quite effective for me. If they are working toward relieving your symptoms keep working on it, maybe you can look for some different/new DBT skills to build on the ones you have, or some other types of skills building on the successful of DBT.

Good luck Leomama

[leomama]

Originally Posted by dexter

I look at a diagnosis not as a label but as a group of symptoms that that name identifies, to give aid in treating that group of symptoms. i.e. if a person is diagnosed with depression, there is a course of treatment and medications that is known to help for that, but if the diagnosis is bipolar, some of the derpression treatments are not the best coarse so something else is recommended.

NOS I think just means that the symptoms don't really fit into one package or another but span many. Therefore instead of forcing treatment into a set good for one or the other I would think a diagnosis of NOS means more focus on the groups of symptoms themselves rather on a pre-established label.

I was in a DBT program and found it quite effective for me. If they are working toward relieving your symptoms keep working on it, maybe you can look for some different/new DBT skills to build on the ones you have, or some other types of skills building on the successful of DBT.

Good luck Leomama

Not in Dbt anymore graduated a couple of years ago. I'm now doing CBT with a new therapist and working on a list of cognitive distortions.

My ex, his brother and possibly his niece have a dx of bipolar.

My daughter is only 15 and does not have a dx of bipolar although my t feels she may have that. I have 2 lists of providers for my d. I haven't started making phone calls yet because getting my d into treatment is very hard. She's had some therapy and some substance abuse counseling. She also has a dx of substance abuse. She's already overdosed on alcohol once and ended up in the ER.
The substance abuse counselor felt my d needed intensive outpatient treatment but I couldn't get it for her because she's not on probation. I can talk more about that on another forum. The police think she's self medicating due to anxiety. Her father self medicates his bipolar and refuses treatment. It's complicated .

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[bronzeowl]

I was diagnosed with it 3 years ago. It was a misdiagnosis in my case, as I was recently told major depressive disorder is more accurate for me. Mood disorder NOS, though, as my former psychologist explained it is a diagnosis for those who don't fit the strict criteria for bipolar disorder or MDD. They fall somewhere in between. The reason I was misdiagnosed was because at the time I was participating in eating disorder behaviors. The effects of those behaviors were misconstrued as hypomania by the person who diagnosed me. But I didn't meet the criteria for bipolar type 1 or 2.

The diagnosis doesn't matter too much to me. I am glad I have a more accurate one now. MDD definitely feels more accurate for how I've felt most of my life. It is possible you're right about bipolar, but there may be a reason that diagnosis wasn't made. If certain criteria aren't met, a patient is generally diagnosed with an NOS disorder (such as OSFED formerly EDNOS for eating disorder patients who don't meet the criteria for one of the three more well known ones). NOS generally includes a lot of different symptoms. Unfortunately, this makes finding understanding of the diagnosis hard... that's the one thing I never liked about the NOS diagnosis.

Now, I may be wrong, but I believe mood disorder NOS could mean less severe depressive episodes, as well, such as the fact that I was thought to experience less severe hypomania than those dx with bipolar disorder.

[leomama]

My d does have a nutritional disorder as well. Interesting! I put together a binder of our mental health care and will try to make some calls this afternoon for her. I already am in therapy and on medication and a nutritional plan , she is not. She thinks she's fine and her dx are a joke.

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