Gibson
Policy Enforcement
When arteries burst or bones break, diagnosis is easy. When something's broken inside, diagnosis is harder. The lines are blurred. I'd like to think of the blurry lines in psychiatry like the blurry lines of the rainbow. If you ask people how many psychiatric diseases there are, it's like asking how many colors are there in the rainbow? Some say seven colors, some say there's thousands of colors, and both are right.
The main colors of psychiatry are these:
Why would it matter, if DPDR (F48.1) and PTSD are closely related? Well. The former diagnosis is never given, almost. There are twelve study articles on it last year, there are 2,559 new study articles on PTSD. For the former diagnosis it's all doors closed, no real treatment options, no hope in sight. For PTSD there's a wellspring of treatment options, in comparison. They say 1–2% of the general population have depersonalization-derealization disorder at a given time. That's a lot of people. Let's say BLT helps, let's say regular EMDR helps, let's say novel PTSD therapies help, let's say ... Looking at it from a distance, it seems they're close siblings, the frozen F48.1 and the fight-flight PTSD. Both are FFF reactions.
When it comes to management, something that complicates treatment of F48.1 is that there aren't like a single episode of trauma that juts out and you can tackle, but often in F48.1 it's traumatizing emotional stress over a prolonged period of time, before the permafrost of fight-flight-freeze comes.
Anyways. That's my loose thoughts on this: it would stand to reason to lump them together as «FFF disorders», and the lines between those FFF disorders can be blurry.
Your thoughts?
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The main colors of psychiatry are these:
- F00-F09 Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders
- F10-F19 Mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use
- F20-F29 Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders
- F30-F39 Mood [affective] disorders
- F40-F48 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
Why would it matter, if DPDR (F48.1) and PTSD are closely related? Well. The former diagnosis is never given, almost. There are twelve study articles on it last year, there are 2,559 new study articles on PTSD. For the former diagnosis it's all doors closed, no real treatment options, no hope in sight. For PTSD there's a wellspring of treatment options, in comparison. They say 1–2% of the general population have depersonalization-derealization disorder at a given time. That's a lot of people. Let's say BLT helps, let's say regular EMDR helps, let's say novel PTSD therapies help, let's say ... Looking at it from a distance, it seems they're close siblings, the frozen F48.1 and the fight-flight PTSD. Both are FFF reactions.
When it comes to management, something that complicates treatment of F48.1 is that there aren't like a single episode of trauma that juts out and you can tackle, but often in F48.1 it's traumatizing emotional stress over a prolonged period of time, before the permafrost of fight-flight-freeze comes.
Anyways. That's my loose thoughts on this: it would stand to reason to lump them together as «FFF disorders», and the lines between those FFF disorders can be blurry.
Your thoughts?
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