Common Abbreviations
Copyright, Jekyll Hyde
Relating to List Discussions
- A&E
- What people in the UK call an ER
- AD
- Anti Depressant — haven’t heard this in a while
- AP
- Anti Psychotic — haven’t heard this in a while either…
- appt.
- Appointment
- BPD
- Borderline Personality Disorder — not bipolar disorder
- CPN
- Community Psychiatric Nurse (UK only I think)
- DID
- Dissociative Identity Disorder (the official term for MPD now)
- ED
- Eating Disorder
- ER
- Emergency Room
- IP
- In Patient
- MAOI
- Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor — another class of anti-depressant
- MD
- Medical Doctor
- MPD
- Multiple Personality Disorder (now an quasi-obsolete term)
- NOS
- Often tacked onto a diagnosis. Literally means “not otherwise specified” — basically it’s not part of a subcategory within the diagnosis (ie. EDNOS, anxiety disorder NOS, depression NOS)
- NSIAD
- National Self Injury Awareness Day — March 1
- OP
- Outpatient
- PA
- Physical Abuse
- pdoc.
- Psychiatrist
- PTSD
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- RN
- Registered Nurse
- SA
- Sexual Abuse
- SAD
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- SI
- Self Injury — also suicidal ideation for some psychiatric stuff, but on the list, it’s pretty standard self injury
- SIV
- Self Inflicted Violence — aka self injury
- SSRI
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor — a class of anti-depressant
- t.
- Therapist
- TCA
- Tri-Cyclic Antidepressant
Medical Terms
- Dx
- Diagnosis
- Hx
- History
- Px
- Prognosis
- Rx
- Prescription or medication
- Sx
- Symptom
- Tx
- Treatment
Some terms of prescriptions:
- ID
- Per day (I think)
- PRN
- Take as needed (may have restrictions as well)
- QID
- 4 x per day
Internet Terms
- AIM
- AOL Instant Messenger — another internet paging thingy
- AOL
- America Online — a service that boots you off every two seconds, but did have the courtesy to invent AIM… so i gotta give ‘em credit for that
- #bus
- A channel on IRC where BUS people meet
- BUS
- Bodies Under Siege mailing list
- ICQ
- An internet paging thingy lots of people have
- IRC
- Internet Relay Chat — a chatty thingy
Random
- 4
- For
- AFAIK
- As Far As I Know
- ATM
- At The Moment
- bc or b/c
- Because
- HS
- high school
- IMHO
- In My Humble Opinion
- OT
- Off Topic — but also occupational therapist
- ppl
- People
- QED
- Quod Erat Demonstrandum — which was to be demonstrated
- r
- Are
- u
- You
- **insert name here**
- Hugs
- ((insert name here))
- Hugs
- ::insert name here::
- Hugs
Smileys
- :)
- Happy face
- ;)
- Winking
- :-P or :Þ
- Toungue sticking out
- :*(
- Crying
- :*)
- Crying — as in happy tears
