So, I snapped a photo of my diagnosis code from one of my therapy appointments and according to PsychCentral.com mines is…
Major Depressive Disorder, Recurrent
296.33 Severe Without Psychotic Features
Well, you don’t say…
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Just discovered your blog and started following. My label is pink sparkly blue with blood encrusted edges and reads Bipolar II Cyclothemic. (Handle with care) and like yours, my meds change names so often I have to write the old names on the packets until I get used to them, just for the fun of them changing again…. it’s a ploy to make us worse!
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296.33 Severe without psychotic features – Same diagnosis! I don’t feel any better about it, yet don’t feel any worse for knowing we are the same either… 🙂
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You can definitely see your enthusiasm in the work you write. The world hopes for even more passionate writers like you who are not afraid to mention how they believe. Always follow your heart.
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Some times its a pain in the ass to read what website owners wrote but this internet site is very user friendly!
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I actually have mine on several letters, ’cause my psych CC’s me the ones he sends to my GP!
Mine reads:
Diagnosis: Bipolar Affective Disorder – F31 (Rapid cycling type)
The UK operates off of the ICD-10 rather than DSM: http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/F01-F99/F30-F39/F31-
So technically, there should probably be something after that F31, but I’m still a relatively new patient. It’s only been two years since my diagnosis, and I threw a wrench into the fine-tuning with this pregnancy! 😀
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Lmao as I was looking around where to get the info I realized I already had that site bookmarked. But I still can’t find it. All I found was the “are you bipolar” quiz
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Hey Bucz!
so thats acutally my code from the doctor office that i visit. i took a photo of it before i gave it back. no test.
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Ahh, ok…I’m bipolar II. Yay what fun. The reality is there is no physical or psychological test that can truly tell you “what” type you are. Our chemicals are unbalanced. Which means if they test us today, then in a month we could get completely different results.
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Sounds like mine.
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How did you get a diagnosis code?
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i took a photo of it from the paper my doctor gave me to give to the front desk people
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Oh, do you need a doctor present to do the test?
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ita actually not a test. the first time i went to the therapist, at the end of the meeting, she handed me a paper that i had to take to the front desk ladies. on it was the diagnosis code. it is written everytime i go, so i guess that is what they are treating me for, idk, but ask your therapishlt for your code.
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It looks like an American site so I am not sure if my therapist would have a code. Oh well.
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I’ve taken so many of those Damn tests. What section is the test listed on this site?
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They are just labels designed to help insurance with billing and clinicians. I probably have a few. HA!
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