Lesson 6 - Somatic Symptoms

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five basic somatic symptom and related disorders

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• somatic symptom disorder
• illness anxiety disorder
• psychological factors affecting medical condition
• conversion disorder
• factitious disorder

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there is an excessive or maladaptive response to physical symptoms or to associated health concerns

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somatic symptom disorders

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experience of severe pain in which psychological factors play a major role in maintaining or exacerbating the pain whether there is a clear physical reason for the pain or not

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somatic symptom disorder

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One or more somatic symptoms that are distressing and/or
result in significant disruption of daily life.

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somatic symptom disorder

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physical symptoms are either not experienced at the present time or are very mild, but severe anxiety is focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disease

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Illness Anxiety Disorder

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the presence of a diagnosed medical condition such as asthma, diabetes, or severe pain clearly caused by a known medical condition that is adversely affected by one or more psychological or behavioral factors

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Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition

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physical malfunctioning, such as paralysis, blindness, or difficulty speaking (aphonia), without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction.

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Conversion Disorders

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patients with conversion reactions had the same quality of indifference to the symptoms thought to be present in some people with severe somatic symptom disorder

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la belle indifférence

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The symptoms are under voluntary control, as with malingering, but there is no obvious reason for voluntarily producing the symptoms except, possibly, to assume the sick role and receive increased attention

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factitious disorders

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Falsification of physical or psychological signs or symptoms, or induction of injury or disease, associated with identified deception.

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factitious disorders

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Your perception alters so that you temporarily lose the sense of your own reality, as if you were in a dream and you were watching yourself

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Depersonalization

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your sense of the reality of the external world is lost. Things may seem to change shape or size; people may seem dead or mechanical.

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Derealization

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feelings of unreality are so severe and frightening that they dominate an individual’s life and prevent normal functioning

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Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder

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Experiences of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer with respect to one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body or actions

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Depersonalization

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Experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings

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Derealization

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a failure to recall specific events, usually traumatic, that occur during a specific period.

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localized or selective amnesia

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Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states, which may be described in some cultures as an experience of possession. The disruption of marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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different identities or personalities in DID

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alters

Question 18

a subtype of dissociative amnesia, memory loss is combined with an unexpected trip

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dissociative fugue