Somatic Symptom Disorders

Question 1

Which somatic symptom disoders have wanted vs unwanted symptoms/motivations?

Answer 1

Unwanted motivations include illness anxiety, somatic symptom disorder, and conversion disorder (functional neurologic symptom disorder)

Wanted includes factitious disorder and malingering

Question 2

What is the difference between somatic symptom and conversion?

Answer 2

Somatic symptom has a real somatic symptoms that might have a medical diagnosis but pain/symptom is disproporitonate to offense whereas conversion disorderfunctional neurologic symptom disorder) is a neurologic complaint that nots fabricated and no organic cause thought to be a result of significant stressor

Question 3

Previously known as munchausen syndrome

Answer 3

factitious disorder (think gypsy rose)