Somatic symptom & dissociative disorders

Question 1

Somatic symptom disorder

Answer 1

Individuals with physical symptoms that have no apparent physical explanation.

Question 2

Illness anxiety disorder

Answer 2

(Hypochondriasis). Severe anxiety is focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disease. Often run to the doctors.

Question 3

Psychological factors affecting medical condition

Answer 3

Presence of a medical condition, e.g. diabetes, where psychological factors can affect the already existing condition e.g. anxiety can worsen asthma.

Question 4

Conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disirder)

Answer 4

Generally, have to do with physical malfunctioning, e.g. paralysis, blindness etc without any physical or organic pathology to account for the condition.

Question 5

Factitious disorders

Answer 5

Fabricated symptoms, either caused by oneself or perpetrated by others (Munchausen by proxy, typical child abuse).

Question 6

Depersonalization-derealization disorder

Answer 6

Experiences of unreality, detachment or being an outside observer of one’s own life.

Question 7

Dissociative amnesia

Answer 7

People with this type of amnesia are unable to remember anything, including who they are.

Question 8

Dissociative identity disorder

Answer 8

People with this disorder may adopt as many as 100 new identities, all simultaneously coexisting. DSM-5 criteria include amnesia.