Okay, let's be honest. Sometimes the world of mental health feels a little bit like trying to crack a code of an overly complicated spy novel because you will walk into your therapist office and you're thinking, I think I'm a little sad.

And then suddenly you are navigating through PDD, which surprise is not PMDD.

One is a persistent drizzle of sadness, and the other is an emotional

thunderstorm that happens to be synced to a lunar calendar. And then somebody throws in ODD, not the

odd that you're thinking, but we're talking oppositional defiant disorder. Now you're wondering

if your toddler might be staging a coup. And don't even get me started on OCD, D-I-D, NPD, and B-P-D.

Because if you say them altogether, they start to not really sound like diagnoses, or you're

suddenly just realizing that you're being invited into some sort of secret society. And I am sorry,

but if you were a child of the 90s, or maybe in your early 20s in the 90s, like myself, most likely your brain just screamed,

are you down with OPP?

And don't even dare look that up what that means now that you have the internet or else you will,

D-I-E, thinking that you were singing that out loud, maybe with the kids in the car?

Because I guarantee that you did not know that that was what it meant.

And before you know what you're starting to spell out,

H-E-L-P in metaphorical Morse code,

because all you really wanted was to feel G-O-O-D.

But at least you know one thing is for sure.

The DSM or the Bible of Mental Health Diagnoses must stand for definitely so many meanings.

And that is where we come in.

To untangle this alphabet soup one letter at a time, you're not crazy.

You're just stuck in the middle of a very confusing game of scrabble or words with friends

for the modern day audience.

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