PS2: somatic symptom disorders

Question 1

somatic symptom disorder

Answer 1

when an individual has a somatic symptom—such as abnormal physical signs or sensory deficit—that is not necessarily caused by another medical condition or physiological abnormality.

for instance, an individual may have chronically shaking hands, but all test results and scans indicate that the shaking is not due to a neurological condition.

Question 2

conversion disorder

Answer 2

symptoms typically follow traumatic events, such as feeling numbness in an arm after watching someone else lose a limb—though the muscles of the arm and the motor neurons have no noticeable injuries

Question 3

illness anxiety disorder

Answer 3

when a person is consumed with the thought of having an illness or disease