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Default May 31, 2020 at 02:27 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Amyjay View Post
Sorry OP, but it is very annoying when people insist that incorrect information is correct. To be absolutely clear if you tell a professional you suspect you have ANY dissociative disorder, no competent mental health professional is going to wonder why you are trying to diagnose yourself with 'no disorder, no condition'. But I think you are actually smart enough to know that for yourself.
If you go to page 24 of the link the previous poster provided it is clearly highlighted for you. It says "this chapter also includes an additional code, no diagnosis or condition, for situations in which the individual has been evaluated and it is determined that no condition or disorder is present." DDNOS, which stands for Dissociative DISORDER, Not Otherwise Specified, has absolutely not turned into "no condition, no disorder". They are completely separate codes and are not at all related to each other. The OSDD diagnostic label and its subsets successfully cover situations where DDNOS used to be applied.

The Wikipedia link supplied clearly states "DDNOS is the most common dissociative disorder and is diagnosed in 40% of dissociative disorder cases " and "Dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) is a mental health diagnosis for pathological dissociation that matches the DSM-5 criteria for a dissociative disorder, but does not fit the full criteria for any of the specifically identified subtypes..." Which is precisely why it was scrapped and replaced with OSDD and all its subtypes, which then allowed those cases of disorder and pathological dissociation to be classified.
NOT labelled as "no condition, no disorder".

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