Somatic Symptoms

Question 1

This is the disorder characterized by multiple, current, somatic symptoms that are distressing or result in significant disruption of daily life.

Answer 1

Somatic symptom disorder.

Question 2

True or False: if you can’t find a physical cause for a somatic symptom disorder, the patient is malingering.

Answer 2

False

SSD’s are not feigned or intentionally produced.

Question 3

Are SSD’s more common in women or men?

Answer 3

Women

Question 4

This is the type of SSD where there is chronic pain attributed to a combination of factors including somatic, psychological, and environmental influences (Dr. House).

Answer 4

Pain disorder

Question 5

This is the type of SSD where there are distressing somatic symptoms + abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in respoonse to these symptoms.

Answer 5

Medically unexplained symptoms.

Question 6

This is the disorder characterized by the preocupation with having or acquiring a serious illness, mild somatic Sx if present, high levels of anxiety about health, and is not explained by a greatere mental disorder.

Answer 6

Illness anxiety disorder

Question 7

How long must u have illness preoccupation to Dx illness anxiety disorder, even if the specific illness that is feares has changed?

Answer 7

> 6 months

Question 8

The DSM5 wiped out “Hypochondirasis” and said that if there was a significant somatic symptom presentaiton in addition to high health anxiety, we call it what?

Answer 8

SSD

Question 9

This is the condition where there is a sudden loss of sensory or motor function (paralysis, blindness, mutism) often following an acute stressor.

Answer 9

Conversion disorder

“converting stress to something physical”

Question 10

What is it called in French where the patient recognizes the conversion disorder but is indifferent towards it?

Answer 10

La Belle Indifférence

Omelette du fromage

Question 11

This is the condition where the patient consciously creates physical and/or psychological symptoms in order to assume “sick role” and get medical attention or to get out of going to LDP.

Answer 11

Factitious disorder

Question 12

This is the condition where there is a chronic factitious disorder with predominantly physical sings and symptoms, characteized by a Hx of multiple hospital admission s and willingness to receive invasive procedures.

Answer 12

Factitous disorder imposed on self

Munchausens syndrome

Question 13

This is when the illness in a child or elderly patient is caused by the caregiver, in order to assume a sick role by proxy, and is a form of child/elder abuse.

Answer 13

Factitious disorder imposed on another

Munchausen syndrome by proxy