somatic symptom and dissociative disorders

Question 1

The inability to label feelings with words.

Answer 1

alexithymia

Question 2

Loss of recent or remote memory.

Answer 2

amnesia

Question 3

A somatic-related disorder in which patients experience one or more changes in the performance of a voluntary motor or sensory function; patients with symptoms of abnormal voluntary motor function may present with weakness or paralysis, abnormal movements, and abnormal extremity functioning or positions.

Answer 3

conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder)

Question 4

The experience of unreality or detachment from the individual’s mind, sense of self, and/or physical body.

Answer 4

depersonalization

Question 5

The experience of unreality or detachment from the person’s surroundings.

Answer 5

derealization

Question 6

Disruption and/or discontinuity of the individual’s normal sense of memory, emotions, perception, motor control, behavior, and sense of identity. Patients have described dissociation as a sense of the body being present with an absent mind. This disruption causes difficulty in day-to-day functioning.

Answer 6

dissociation

Question 7

Episode of travel with no memory of how the individual reached the location.

Answer 7

dissociative fugue

Question 8

Disorder that may occur in individuals who have sustained horrific physical and psychological abuse over time—usually in early childhood—that is characterized by dissociation from the trauma, which may result in a fragmented personality. The dissociated fragment of memory may be identified with a personality and may be labeled with a name or act in a different manner than the individual’s usual behavior.

Answer 8

dissociative identity disorder (did)

Question 9

Disorder that may be diagnosed when the clinician can demonstrate that the individual is taking steps to fabricate an illness.

Answer 9

factitious disorder

Question 10

A somatic-related disorder characterized by preoccupation with having an illness, even though typically there are no physical symptoms of an illness.

Answer 10

illness anxiety disorder

Question 11

Disorder in which patients express symptoms through their body, feeling pain and other somatic sensations that others may not experience. These sensations become the individual’s focus and concern, often to the exclusion of other areas of life and resulting in functional impairment.

Answer 11

somatic symptom disorder