35 - Other physiological disorders

Other physiological disorders

© SPMM Course Other physiological disorders Puerperal disorders: F53 codes mild and severe puerperal mental disorders instead of classifying postnatal  disorders  as  ‘depression’  vs.  ‘psychosis’.  This  is  because,  it  is  well  recognised  that  separating   postnatal psychosis from depression is often difficult in practice. Non dependence abuse: F55 codes for the abuse of a wide variety of medicaments, proprietary drugs, and folk remedies and psychotropic drugs that do not produce dependence, such as antidepressants; laxatives; and analgesics

DSM-5 AND SEXUAL DISORDERS Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder is a new category that merges vaginismus and dyspareunia. The diagnosis of sexual aversion disorder has been removed.