CULTURAL BOUND SYNDROMES Flashcards
Brooding followed by an outburst of violent, aggressive, or homicidal behavior
Amok
Culture: Southeast Asia, Scandinavia
Amok
Intense fear that one’s body displeases, embarasses, or is offensive to other people.
TAIJINKYOFUSHO
Episode of sudden and intense anxiety that the penis (or in women, the vulva and nipples) will recede into the body and possibly cause death
Region/ Culture: Malaysia, China, Thailand
KORO
Symptoms: Severe anxiety about the discharge of semen, whitish discoloration of the urine; feelings of weakness and exhaustion
Region/ Culture: India, Sri Lanka, China
DHAT
Symptom: preoccupation with death and the deceased, manifested in dreams and in severe anxiety
Region/ Culture: Native American Cultures
GHOST SICKNESS
Symptoms: Appetite disturbances, sleep problems, sadness, lack of motivation, low self-worth, aches and pains, follows a frightening
Region/ Culture: U.S. Latinos, Mexico, Central America, South America
SUSTO
Symptoms: delusion of transforming into an animal; behave like the animal they believe they have turned into
LYCANTHROPY
Insatiable craving for human flesh even when other food is available. This fear may be triggered by a real or imagined threat of cannibalism or by extreme hunger and starvation.
WENDIGO PSYCHOSIS
Uncontrollable shouting, attacks of crying, trembling, heat in the chest rising into the head, verbal or physical aggression, a sense of being out of control
ATAQUE DE NERVIOS
fitful sleep, crying without an apparent cause , diarrhea, vomiting, fever
It is characterized by the belief that certain individuals can cause harm or misfortune to others through a malevolent gaze or envious thoughts.
MAL DE OJO
physical and mental fatigue, dizziness, headaches, other pains, concentration difficulties, sleep disturbance, memory loss
SHINJING SHUAIRUO
