[Wonder]

Echo, on Nov 7 2005, 11:22 PM, said:

Oh god, your description is so right on so many levels. Mine phuckiatrist threw me into a month long (and counting....) ultraradian cycling mixed state from hell because he chose not to believe my prior diagnosies (sp?) that had been agreed upon by several doctors (pdocs, tdoc, and gp) as well as chosing to downplay or completely ignore ALL my my symptoms for no good fucking reason. In a completely sarcastic tone: "Oh, sure, you're bipolar - here's 150mg of effexor, have a nice trip!" A trip to the ER, change of meds, and new doctor later and i'm STILL in hell. Fucking phuckiatrist. FUCK YOU ABOULNAZR!

Oh. My. God. That is, like, EXACTLY what happened to me a few months ago. EXACTLY. A shrink chose not to believe my prior diagnoses for no apparent reason, completely ignored my symptoms and anything I tried to say to him, and prescribed me Effexor, which threw me into an ultradian cycling mixed state from hell. (I feel uncomfortable describing myself as "ultradian cycling" even though I'm pretty sure it's accurate, since it feels like self-diagnosis when a shrink has never used that term with me, but at least one has described me as rapid cycling. But I think it's not incredibly easy to find a shrink who believes that ultradian cycling exists. Hell, it's hard enough to find one who'll say "rapid cycling.") Mine only lasted a little over three weeks, though, because I got arrested and taken to the hospital after three weeks, and when I stopped taking Effexor, I actually became fairly stable again. Lucky me. But I would feel a lot luckier if he had prescribed me a fucking mood stabilizer in the first place, 'cause then the three-week roller coaster ride from hell wouldn't have happened.

[mel1]

Sensory overload-SOL?

[Submerged]

I work for an institution treating children suffering from autism.
We don't use the term SI at work; instead we use SIB - Self Injurious Behavior.

Sub

This post has been edited by Submerged: 08 October 2006 - 09:31 AM

[Velvet Elvis]

I an aspie. We don't use the phrase "suffering from autism." We say "is autistic."

[Submerged]

Velvet Elvis, on Sep 22 2006, 10:54 PM, said:

I an aspie. We don't use the phrase "suffering from autism." We say "is autistic."

Personally I agree with you. I always used to say "was autistic" until an administrater where I work corrected me one day about a year or two ago and said that the socially acceptable phrase is "suffering from autism." I then had to make a point to say "suffering from autism" all of the time because I didn't want to offend any of the children's parents. I think that this would be a good topic for the Autism board, though. I think that ultimately, those who have autism should be the ones making the call.

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[Velvet Elvis]

Subterranean, on Sep 24 2006, 01:38 AM, said:

Velvet Elvis, on Sep 22 2006, 10:54 PM, said:

I an aspie. We don't use the phrase "suffering from autism." We say "is autistic."

Personally I agree with you. I always used to say "was autistic" until an administrater where I work corrected me one day about a year or two ago and said that the socially acceptable phrase is "suffering from autism." I then had to make a point to say "suffering from autism" all of the time because I didn't want to offend any of the children's parents. I think that this would be a good topic for the Autism board, though. I think that ultimately, those who have autism should be the ones making the call.

Sub

Heh. Trust me. It's well covered groud. Your boss is clueless.

It's an identity issue. I suufer from asperger's about as much as I suffer from green eyes. I suffer from NTs though.

http://en.wikipedia....rst_terminology

[Panz]

anafagodma, on Oct 25 2005, 02:39 PM, said:

Fuckiatrist- qdoc to the n th degree. Ignores symptoms you KNOW because you've HAD MDD all your life and plays little games like taking you off one of your meds that you've been on, successfully, for 2 years, then refusing to see you for your scheduled intake the day you get released from the bin to which you were certified after a failed suicide under his careful w/drawal of such med, then refusing to see you again because the fucking receptionists can't coordinate a date and a day of the week on a fucking appointment card.

Basically, a fuckiatrist just hopes you'll manage to successfully kill yourself before they ever have to actually see you.

Hey cool! I've been searching for just the right word to describe most of the lovely mental health care pros of Idaho.

[c ircular stone]

Am so glad this page is here with all the abbreviations, great help

[water]

Maddy, on 11 June 2005 - 09:38 PM, said:

Brought over from Crazy Talk on crazymeds.us --

The Abbreviations & Acronyms List

5150 = Seventy-two hour hospitalization for treatment and evaluation when patient is considered a threat to self or others. (WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 5150-5157 - link to comple text)
5HT = Serotonin

AAP = Atypical AntiPsychotic
AD = Anti Depressant
ADD = Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD = Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
AED = Anti Epileptic Drug(s)
AP = AntiPsychotic
AS = Asperger's Syndrome
ATM = At The Moment
ATT = At This Time

b/c = because
BC or BCP = Birth Control / Birth Control Pill (aka "The Pill")
BID = Twice a day
BF = Boyfriend
BP = BiPolar
may be used with the modifiers: I, II, RC, UC
RC = Rapid Cycling
UC = Ultra Rapid Cycling
BPD = Borderline Personality Disorder
BTW = By The Way

CBT = Cognitive behavior Therapy
CP = Complex Partial (seizure)
CYA = Cover your ass

DA = Dopamine
DBT = Dialectical behavioral Therapy
DH = Dear Hubby
DID = Dissociative Identity Disorder (same as MPD)
DSM-IV = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition
DSM-IV-TR = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision
DW = Dear Wife
DX = Diagnosis

ECT = Electro Convulsive Therapy (shock treatment)
ED = Eating Disorder
EPS = ExtraPyramidal Symptoms

GABA = Gamma-AminoButyric Acid
GAD = Generalized Anxiety Disorder
GF = Girl Friend
GP = General Practitioner (regular Doctor)

HFA = High Functioning Autistic/Autism
Hx = History

IBS = Irritable Bowel Syndrome
IP = In-Patient (aka - In-Patient hospitalization)

MAO/MAOI = monoamine oxidase/inhibitor
MDD = Major Depressive Disorder
MIL = mother-in-law (or sil, bil, or fil for sister-, brother-, or father-in-law)
MOTOS = Member of the opposite sex
MOMOS = Member of my own sex
MPD = Multiple Personality Disorder
MS = Mood Stabilizer (or Multiple Sclerosis, etc. Check it's use against the context of the sentence or topic.)

NA = Norepenephrine
NOS = Not Otherwise Specified
NT = Neuro Typical (non-autistic, "normal" people)
NVLD = Non Verbal Learning Disorder

OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
OCPD = Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
ODD = Oppositional Defiant Disorder
OTC = Over The Counter

PD = Panic Disorder
PDD = Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Pdoc = Psychiatrist
POSSLQ = Persons of the opposite sex sharing living quarters (i.e. shacked up) -- obsolete
PRN = As needed
PTSD = Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

QAM = in the morning
QD = Once per day
Qdoc = Quack Doctor
QHS (or hs) - at bedtime
QID = Four times a day
QOD = every other day

Rx = Prescription

SAD = Seasonal Affective Disorder
SI = Self Injury
SO = significant other
SP = Simple Partial (seizure)
SNRI = Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors
SSRI = selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

TCA = tricyclic antidepressant
TD = Tarditive Dyskensia
Tdoc = Therapist
TID = Three times per day
TLE = Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
TMJ = TemporoMandibular Joint
TX = Treatment

Uberspazz = being autistic, bipolar and epileptic. (Also referred to as the Classic Trifecta) Plural form: uberspazzen (according to strungoutonlife)

Acronyms for internet related stuff: http://www.gaarde.or...yms/?lookup=A-Z


That's all I could think of for now.

*edited to include additions and suggestions by: Greenyflowers, ka-mai, Erika, anafagodma, reddog, lp, Miche, Tegork, Fire_Storm, Velvet Elvis and wifezilla.


This is only the first post of that thread. I've included the link to that thread at the top of this post [Crazy Talk] I will start working on transferring the rest of the abbreviations & acronyms to this thread tomorrow or sometime soon. I hope this helps a bit so far, though. Thanks for the kick to the butt, I'd totally forgotten about it!

*Updated*

Updated to include the suggestions from Crazy Talk on YaBB that never got done, plus the suggestions from wifezilla and Velvet Elvis. I also updated the credits to all who contributed to the glossary/abbreveviations/acronyms list. I also included some additional ones that I stuck me as I was adding the newly suggested ones.

Thanks to all the contributors!
Maddy.

This is the one I went to over and over and over and over again.

[Maddy]

I updated the list to add the following:

ETOH = Ethanol (i.e. alcohol)