Palsy In Psychology

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There is a long list, I believe of psychological disorders. Some psychological disorders are also, considered mental disorders. We will take a look at factitious disorder, conversion disorder, somatic symptom disorder, and some traditional psychological disorders. Furthermore, I feel that some people just think that they have something wrong with them and run to a medical doctor, or another health care professional just to run up expensive bills, which whatever the person got diagnosed with could have been treated at home with basic disorder is because, the person thinks there is something wrong. This can be lying about symptoms (Comer, Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology, 2014, pp. 237-262). I feel that this is a legitimate psychological disorder because, the person is acting abnormally, like I mentioned above. …show more content…
237-262). With this disorder many people have mild to severe impairment (Comer, Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology, 2014, pp. 237-262). This means, that a person may not be able to walk. For me, I live with cerebral palsy, so I feel that conversion disorder plays into the cerebral palsy. I have a very mild form of cerebral palsy and some people can have complete paralysis with cerebral palsy. I think this is a legitimate psychological disorder because, a person can be blind and have impairment from mild to severe cases of this

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