Tawaki wrote:
My two pennies into the hat.
In my area (midwest US), the only time I've seen IED diagnosed is in children under 18 so they are not saddled with a bipolar diagnosis. Insurance will pay for therapies for IED. They really fight bipolar diagnosis for kids.
The IED diagnosis is new, and I believe just came out with the DSM V. I understood it was put there so kids weren't just dumped into the bipolar bucket because no other diagnosis was a better fit.
My husband has Aspergers. His depression, anxiety, ruminating, meltdowns, lack of decent executive functioning skills all stem from his Aspergers. This is the kicker. Our insurance will pay for NOTHING if the main diagnosis is autism. Why? There is no therapies that will get you back to "normal", if you are an adult. At least that's how my insurance rolls.
So...my husband's psychiatrist puts down he has anxiety, OCD and depression because insurance will pay for that.
The psychologist, who diagnosed my husband, says the bulk of testing clients roll in with a boat load of multiple diagnosis.
OCD, GAD, SocAD, depression, misophonia, food aversion, anorexia, agoraphobia, schizoid personality disorder....
The issue is, if you only put autism as the diagnosis, will the insurance pay for therapies? Mine absolute will not. This psychologist is mostly private pay. When he sends the clients away he will also include depression and anxiety as secondary diagnosis, so the treating psychiatrist has a billable diagnosis.
I'm wondering if you are just having meltdowns from stress and sensory overloads, and the IED was put there for handiness sake.
Meltdowns---->no coverage for therapies.
IED----->coverage for therapies.
I've worked with kids with ODD, and been around kids with IED. They present differently.
I hope whatever your diagnosis is that the meltdowns decrease. Those are so draining.
That's very interesting how disorders are also diagnosed. I wonder what happens when an autistic person goes for therapy and their rituals and routines and obsessions are treated as them having OCD or what if their anxiety alone only gets treated and their depression, how does that help them? Their problems from their autism would still be there. This also helps explain why I also have the OCD and anxiety diagnoses, so I can get treatment still because Asperger's alone will not do it.
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Son: Diagnosed w/anxiety and ADHD. Also academic delayed.
Daughter: NT, no diagnoses.
27 Jun 2016, 11:08 am
