Posted by NightStar72 on April 3, 2005, at 10:52:21
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)
http://allpsych.com/disorders/dsm.html
This is a pretty cool web site, explaining a lot of stuff about the codes used in the DSM-IV and the AXIS.
Here is mine:
Axis I: 296.7 Bipolar I Disorder, most recent episode unspecified
Axis I (secondary) 300.3 and 309.81 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Axis II: 301.9 Personality Disorder NOS (now know this one to be Borderline Personality Disorder)
Axis III: None Reported (now know this to be high blood sugar, cholesterol, and elevated liver levels)
Axis IV: Access to health care services, Housing, Finance, Social Enviroment, Occupational, Primary Support Group.
Axis V: Current GAF: 42
Using a 1-100 rating scale called the Global Assessment of Functional (GAF) scale, a judgment is made as to how impaired (or unimpaired) the patient is on the basis of his or her symptoms in every day life. On this scale, a score of 80 or above means basically normal every day functioning; below 50 means serious impairment, such as a recurrent unemployment due to psychiatric impairments; below 20 pretty much means that the person is in need of psychiatric hospitalization.
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