What is your OSDD diagnosis (macropsia, tachypsychia, microamnesia, dissociative stup

Do you know what your OSDD mental disorder is....

Recently on another website forum I noticed something that got me wondering about members here. They knew what their OSDD mental disorder was.

OSDD is a cover all category in the dissociative disorders category.

I think of it like a book a book has the title of the book but inside the book is many different titles of each chapter. each chapter is about one topic.

OSDD is a group of mental disorders where a person has very little dissociation problems. Each time they go through the problems, it only lasts for under a month, most times just a day or two.

Here in the USA when a treatment provider diagnosis OSDD they also have to specify what other dissociative disorder a person has. (OSDD stands for Other Specified Dissociative Disorder. on files it looks like this......OSDD- (name of the other dissociative disorder ).

there are many many mental disorders in the OSDD category. On this other website everyone who is diagnosed OSDD knows what their Other Specified Dissociative disorder is.

I was wondering if other here with OSDD diagnosis knows what their Other Specified Dissociative Disorder mental disorder is....

Example....

mine are Macropsia with mixed symptoms of Tachypsychia along with other mixed dissociative symptoms.

each OSDD criteria has its own mental disorder name and some have more than one mental disorder in that criteria.

what is your OSDD mental disorder label. (if you dont know dont panic its easy to find out, just ask your treatment provider which OSDD mental disorder you have there are many not all are listed online.)

I have no idea.....does it matter?

Is there a list of Specific dissociative disorders. I had to look up what you wrote about yourself.

My T just codes our sessions as Major Depressive Disorder for insurance.

yes there is a list. you wont find a detailed list online. its something that treatment providers tell you when they diagnose you with OSDD

example when my psychiatrist diagnosed me with OSDD he stated.... you have OSDD. your mental disorders in this category are Macropsia with mixed symptoms of Tachypsychia along with other mixed dissociative symptoms.

for some people it is important to be fully informed of their diagnosis's and others it does not matter. for me it does matter. this way if something should happen and I have to be hospitalized I wont get treated as being psychotic, suicidal or other wise. they will see on my records my diagnosis's and treat me according to my having dissociative problems.

I was just curious about whether or not others know what their OSDD diagnosis is besides me because on the other forum they do know and post about their OSDD diagnosis's.

Hmm......my therapist is not a psychiatrist so I doubt he is breaking down OSDID to subcategories.

Im assuming your computer or laptop or cell phone keep auto correcting you. I am not talking about Other Specified Dissociative Identity Disorder (The letters in your post)

reason I am assuming you are using auto correct I recently did a research project and found out what each country in the world has for dissociative disorders none list anything called Other Specified Dissociative Identity Disorder but some gave me some fun info about what the internet calls Other Specified Dissociative Identity Disorder ......someone in Cancun, decided to prank their friend by telling them they had OSDID (the letters stand for a beach in Cancun) the drunk friend thought they were talking about a new form of DID since it was close to the new DSM5 being released. the prank video went viral and all over the net you see the made up mental disorder called OSDID showing up either because people are enjoying the prank or because their devices are now auto correcting to to the pranked letters not the new mental disorder letters that have no I in the mental disorder name.

my point I am talking about Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (No letter "I" or word Identity in the label) not the pranked cancun letters gone viral due to auto correct

the world has two dissociative mental disorder....

Unspecified Dissociative Disorder (meaning the ER doctors do not tell the patient what their dissociative disorder is and this gets changed when they follow up with their regular mental health provider)

Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (meaning the treatment provider must state what the other mental disorder is that qualifies the person for this diagnosis)

no it does not matter to me if you do not know what your other specified disorder is. I was just curious because we all on another website know what our other specified dissociative disorder is.

here is a few examples of Other Specified Dissociative Disorders....

Macropsia - objects feel like they are getting smaller / farther away
Tachypsychia - feeling like time is moving too slowly or too fast
analgesia - not feeling any pain when dissociating
micro - amnesia ... short term memory problems due to dissociation
Transient Stupor - short term paralysis/ mobility problems and unable to respond to outside stimuli (like if a doctor checks reflexes your reflexes done respond because you are dissociated.
Dissociative Trance not due to any religious or cultural practices

there are others but this will give you an idea of what I am talking about.

At my appointment today with my T, I asked him to get specific about my diagnosis. He told me I have OSDD-1:Chronic and recurrent syndromes of mixed dissociative symptoms. He told me I am in the moderate severity of that diagnosis.
I had a whole list of things prepared to talk to him about, and he brought them up before I could. I asked him if he had ESP and he said he had just been doing this a long time--that is treating people with trauma issues.

It sounds like you are very fortunate to having a very good T....how long have you been together?

How did you meet?

Ohhhh....I have that all wrong then. So it is OSDD? No Identity in it?

Ok I want to ask my T? Can someone help me draft an email to him asking and why it would be beneficial to me to know as T's are so fickle about how diagnosis does not matter as they are treating the whole person in front of them as my T says.

I fit this the best. Unfortunately this is the UK's breakdown. Not in the United States where I am.:
OSDD-1b might experience their alters more as different versions of themselves, though they're more likely to experience a noticeable change in skills, memory, temperament, or overall personality. It is important to note that even the least differentiated OSDD-1b parts are still more differentiated, separate, and autonomous than the most developed parts that can be present in borderline personality disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, or complex posttraumatic stress disorder, none of which involve dissociated parts that have a unique sense of self or self history. Even OSDD-1a parts are often more differentiated than the pure dissociated trauma materials, emotions, or attachment needs present in these latter disorders. As well, some individuals with OSDD-1b do have highly distinct alters such as those often found in DID. For these individuals, the main defining factor is their lack of inter-identity amnesia.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579511/

This is a good research article.

thanks so much (((((Moxie)))))) for stating at the top of your post that what you were going to post was the UK breakdown not the USA. this really helped me to understand your post.

in another post you stated.....

"Ohhhh....I have that all wrong then. So it is OSDD? No Identity in it?"

here in the USA there is no I or identity in the name of the disorder, here it is OSDD. not OSDID.

here the symptom of identity problems is .....less than..... not more than. meaning a person has less than / very little or just a tiny bit of problems with Identity. its very different than having DID here.

so as to not confuse posters in a majority of the world where the DSM 5 standards are used (there is now only 4 countries that do not use the DSM -5 standards along with their own diagnostic manuals) here is what the DSM -5 OSDD diagnostics are. as you can see in the diagnostics some of the actual OSDD mental disorders are listed, some are not...

here in the USA the numbers do not represent a type of OSDD. the numbers just represent the list of diagnostic criteria.... kind of like if you were making a shopping list and wrote cake on the top line and underneath wrote 1. flour, 2 salt, 3 sugar, 4 butter..... here in the USA the numbers just represent the .....diagnostic criteria......(what gets a person diagnosed with OSDD) the actual mental disorder/disorders are on a list that treatment providers use that the general public does not usually get to see. here in america you dont get diagnosed with OSDD -1 or OSDD -3 you get actual diagnostic names like macropsia, micro amnesia, and others.

keep in mind that some of this may have changed in wording or criteria based on the supplemental updates that the American Psychiatric Association has made available to treatment providers after the publication of the DSM 5....

Other Specified Dissociative Disorder 300.15 (F44.89)

the DSM 5 states....

This category applies to presentations in which symptoms characteristic of a dissociative disorder that causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning predominate but do not meet the full criteria for any of the disorders in the dissociative disorders diagnostic class. The Other Specified Dissociative Disorder category is used in situations in which the clinician chooses to communicate the specific reason that the presentation does not meet the criteria for any specific dissociative disorder. This is done by recording "Other Specified Dissociative Disorder" followed by the specific reason (e.g. "Dissociative Trance")

Examples of presentations that can be specified using the "other specified" designation include the following:

1. Chronic and recurrent syndromes of mixed dissociative symptoms: This category includes identity disturbance associated with less-than-marked discontinuities in sense of self and agency, or alterations of identity or episodes of possession in an individual who reports no dissociative amnesia.

2. Identity disturbance due to prolonged and intensive coercive persuasion: individuals who have been subjected to intensive coercive persuasion (e.g. brainwashing, thought reform, indoctrination while captive torture, long term political imprisonment, recruitment by sects/cults or by terror organizations) may present with prolonged changes in or conscious questioning of, their identity.

3. Acute Dissociative reactions to stressful events: this category is for acute transient conditions that typically last less than 1 month and sometimes only a few hours or days. These conditions are characterized by constriction of consciousness, depersonalization, derealization,perceptual disturbances (e.g. time slowing, macropsia) micro-amnesias, transient stupor; and or alterations in sensory-motor functioning (e.g. analgesia, paralysis)

4 Dissociative Trance: This condition is characterized by an acute narrowing or complete loss of awareness of immediate surroundings that manifests as profound unresponsiveness or insensitivity to environmental stimuli. the unresponsiveness may be accompanied by minor stereotyped behaviors (e.g. finger movements) of which the individual is unaware and/or that he or she can not control, as well as transient paralysis or loss of consciousness. The dissociative trance is not a normal part of a broadly accepted collective cultural or religious practice.

these are what I am asking about .... do you know what the name of your OSDD diagnosis is.

your other post moxie..... I am not asking for research articles. my research project is completed thanks anyway ((((((Moxie)))))) I asked that your research article post be moved to its own thread so that if you and others want to talk about research articles you still can do that with out losing your link.

I met my T over 10 years ago when my husband and I were pursuing marriage counseling. He was the director of the agency and did the intake interview for both of us individually. I was impressed with his insights at that time. Unfortunately, he assigned us to another counselor for our therapy.

Late last year, around Thanksgiving I think, I read an awesome book by Nancy Napier and saw so much of myself in it. My husband and I are still dealing with issues--he is dealing with an addiction--and I kept receiving advice that I needed to deal with my childhood trauma issues--and he his addiction--before we could work on improving our marriage. I remembered my T and wondered if he worked with Complex Trauma survivors.

When I looked him up, I discovered he did deal with that and that his office was in my city. He is certified in EMDR at the highest level possible. I starting therapy with him in January. We knew I had some dissociative issues, but thought it was mainly undeveloped parts--my words. But as EMDR proceeded, I kept dissociating and my parts would talk. I have no amnesia, so I didn't really know what was happening.

Then one session, he was guiding me in owning my fear and I--actually Sandi now that I know who she is--answered, "I can't." Then I was aware of a boy inside me hiding in a closet. And Sandi told him that "he" could tell him. When my T asked his name, the boy answered, "Billy."

I know I am extremely lucky to have this T, who is a multiple PhD. holder. His intuition is amazing; it's almost like he can read my mind(s).

My form of OSSD-1 matches the designation of OSDD-1b--well developed parts but no amnesia--rather, not much amnesia. I do have some gaps, but they are short.

I emailed T on Friday asking exactly what he was diagnosing me with. I see him Monday at 3pm. I hope he does not asking me why I need to know as I can never really have a good enough reason for needing a diagnosis.

I think it's enough that you want to know. No need to justify it to them. They owe you the truth. Hope that doesn't come across as too harsh.

Good luck! I hope it turns out well for you. I too was nervous asking my T, I thought he'd be analyzing my request and make notes of it and fit it into some kind of analysis of my dysfunction. The fear can be real. But you are strong! I know you are.

Its actually called Dissociative Disorder NOS. Not otherwise specified. You have some of the symptoms to qualify as Dissociative Identity Disorder but not all.

How does EMDR help with dissociative disorders?

the American Psychiatric Association changed Dissociative Disorder NOS to Unspecified Dissociative Disorder in May 2013. you can contact them on their website and they will explain the long process and why they got rid of the NOS labels. https://www.psychiatry.org/about-apa/contact-us

back on topic of thread.....
do you have OSDD and if so were you told whether it was macropsia, micro -amnesia or other names that are called OSDD names or did your treatment provider just say you had OSDD if you were told you have OSDD?

related to the dissociative disorder OSDD (since the topic of this thread is whether a person was told they have OSDD and the mental disorder name that is their OSDD.... I did not do EMDR when my treatment providers told me I had OSDD and the specific name for my OSDD was Macropsia and others. they just told me I had this and the treatment I am on for it is medications, grounding , anxiety/ stress reduction tools like yoga, meditation.

No it has changed to OSDD. It used to be DDNOS

We originally were doing EMDR but I guess I dissociated to much for it to be affective and I could not remember certain details of sessions or conversations. Anyway he said as soon as we can some part integrated, as that is now the treatment, we can go back to EMDR for my complex PTSD.

I’m with you Moxie- I can’t stand it when people withholds information from me...that plays with my head and becomes a wall between me and that person. All trust evaporates because I see it as a power play...

I’ll fire anyone playing games with me. I fired my dentist for lying.

actually if you contact the american psychiatric association they will tell you that DDNOS was changed to UDD (unspecified Dissociative Disorder) not OSDD. here is the link where you can contact them....

https://www.psychiatry.org/about-apa/contact-us

how I remember is by the wording in the labels...

not otherwise Specified (NOS)

is the same as saying Unspecified (not specified)

I would grately appreciate members stop trying to derail this thread with topics that this thread is not about........

title of thread is.....

Do you know and it follows in the original thread with do you know what your OSDD (Other Specified Dissociative Disorder ) is called.

again I would be very appreciated if members please keep with the topic of the thread and post whether or not they know what their OSDD mental disorder is called.

Example one of my OSDD mental disorders is called Tachypsychia which is the dissociative problem of feeling like time is slowing down or speeding up when under stress and dissociating.

maybe if I word it different ....

does your OSDD have another name?

Well I guess I do not belong here anymore. Here is his response to me.

Hi Moxie, I hope you had a good weekend. I am not sure there is anything "wrong" with you; a lot of your symptoms manifest in the brain trying to protect you from hurtful memories. The "wrong" part is that some of the ways the brains copes can prevent you from doing the things you want.

The diagnosis I have formulated:
C-PTSD (complex)

Rule-out: dissociative identity disorder (a rule-out means its not an "official" diagnosis but there are some criteria met)