Disorders Flashcards
(9 cards)
What is somatic symptom disorder?
Somatic symptom disorder is distressing, disruptive, or anxious thoughts, feelings, or behaviors about perceived symptoms and the adverse impact they may have on one’s health.
What is illness anxiety disorder?
Illness anxiety disorder is characterized by an abnormal concern about one’s health, with the false belief of suffering from some disease, despite medical reassurance to the contrary.
What is fictitious disorder?
Factitious disorder is a disorder that is not real or natural. The symptoms, physical and psychological are produced by the individual and are under voluntary control. These symptoms and the behavior are used to pursue a goal, i.e. to assume the role of patient and to stay in a hospital. This is attained by various means, such as taking anticoagulants or other drugs when they are not needed, or feigning pain with nausea and vomiting, dizziness, fainting, fever or unknown origin, or other illnesses. Psychosocial symptoms may include feigned memory loss, hallucinations, and uncooperativeness. Affected patients have a severe personality disturbance.
What is malingering?
Malingering is feigning illness in order to achieve a goal, e.g. arouse sympathy, escape work, or continue to receive compensation.
What is panic disorder?
Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by panic attacks, e.g., agoraphobia with panic attacks.
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
Body dysmorphic disorder is characterized by a preoccupation with one or more imagine defects in appearance.
What is depersonalization disorder?
Depersonalization disorder is the belief that one’s own reality is temporarily lost of altered. Patients experience estrangement or a sense of unreality and may feel that their body parts have been altered. The disorder usually has a rapid onset and usually occurs in adolescence or under extreme stress, fatigue, or anxiety.
What is agoraphobia?
Agoraphobia is a form of social phobia in which one feels either 1) overwhelming symptoms of anxiety on leaving home, or 2) fear of being in places or situations from which escape may be difficult if symptoms of panic arise. The symptoms may occur in everyday situations (such as standing on line, eating in public) in which a person may be unable to escape or get help and may be embarrassed. Symptoms include rapid heartbeat, chest pain, difficulty in breathing, gastrointestinal distress, faintness, weakness, sweating, or fear of impending doom or of dying. People with these symptoms often avoid phobic situations by rarely or never leaving home.
Venes, Donald. Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (p. 66). (Function). Kindle Edition.
What is social anxiety disorder (social phobia)?
Social anxiety disorder (social phobia) is a phobia of any situation in which one may become exposed to potentially embarrassing of humiliating scrutiny by others.
