Culture-bound syndromes

Question 1

losing semen resulting in depression, anxiety, impotence, somatic complaints

Answer 1

dhat (south asia)

look at DHAT (as it’s often semen in urine)

Question 2

amok

Answer 2

to run amok
malaysia
males
brood for several days
then go crazy trying to kill people
can’t remember any of it afterwards

Question 3

ataques de nervios

Answer 3

latino
can be normal response to funerals etc
intense anxiety, distress
shouting
aggressive
can dissociate
sometimes suicidal tendancy

Question 4

brain fag

Answer 4

west african
during periods of increased intellectual activity
can’t remember things
anxious
sensory disturbance

Question 5

khyal cap

Answer 5

wind attacks
cambodians

thought that wind and blood is going to rise up in body and kill them
through compressing lungs/asphyxiation, dizziness, blurriness, fatal syncope
basically symptoms of panic triggered by worry

Question 6

koro

Answer 6

SE asian, Chinese
believe penis is withdrawing inside them

Question 7

Kufungisisa

Answer 7

Shona people of Zimbabwe

means “overthinking”
if you overthink you will get anxious/depressed

Question 8

latah

Answer 8

Malaysian women

dissociative state
automatic copying, hypersensivitiy to being startled

Question 9

maladi moun

Answer 9

Haiti
cultural explanation for illness
diseases are sent to poeple who want to get you back

Question 10

nervious

Answer 10

latinos
being anxious during stressful life

Question 11

nevra

Answer 11

Greek

loss of controls so that you “boil over”

attack people, scream, shout w/ somatic sx

Question 12

piblokto

Answer 12

arctic women

extreme excitement followed by seizures/coma

Question 13

shenjing shuairuo

Answer 13

mandarin Chinese

weak and over emotional

Question 14

susto

Answer 14

latino

attribute illness to a FRIGHT which causes the soul to leave the body and then become anxious/depressed

Question 15

Taijin kyofusho

Answer 15

Japan

conviction that appearance and actions are inadequate to others

Question 16

Wendigo

Answer 16

Cree, Ojibway and Salteaux Native American tribes
occurs in those who experience very severe winters and scarcity of food

initially have distaste for food then become anxious
delusion that their distaste for food is turning them into a Wendigo (giant cannibalistic ice spirit)