Other Specified Anxiety Disorders is a category of DSM-5 diagnoses that applies to individuals who have symptoms characteristic of an anxiety disorder but do not meet the full criteria for any of them. This category in anxiety disorders also includes disorders with cultural components. “Other Specified” diagnoses are not limited to these disorders and are used throughout the DSM-5 to capture presentations where individuals have significant clinical impairment but do not meet standard criteria.[1]
Examples of presentations that can be specified using the “other specified” designation include the following;