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My med history antisocial personality disorder needs correcting -asked therapist for 10 yrs -for gad and bipolar- to write correction but she wrote axis ii deferred -would u infer likely 'true'?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

I am not really: Sure what you are asking. But i normally put axis ii as deferred if a diagnosis of personality disorder is not made. This is not considered a negative to defer on axis ii.

Answered 11/27/2017

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Dr. Linda Callaghan answered

Specializes in Addiction Medicine

No.: An axis ii deferred simply means the evaluator is not sure what or whether there is a personality disorder.

Answered 4/16/2016

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Deferred on axis 2: The safest assumption that the c clinician did not have enough information to make a diagnosis on axis 2 the current condition of the diagnostic and statistical manual has recommended abandoning the axis one through five system.

Answered 7/29/2015

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