Abnormal Psych - 05 - Somatoform

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Somatoform Disorders: List

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Somatization
Undifferentiated Somatoform
Conversion
Pain
Hypochondriasis
Body Dysmorphic

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Somatoform disorders - desc

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Physical symptoms or concerns about an illness cannot be explained by a medical or psychological disorder

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Somatization disorder - desc

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Many varied physical complaints occurring over many years, resulting in numerous phsyciain contacts and significant impairment in functioning. the symptoms cannot be explained by a medical condition

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Undifferentiated Somatoform disorder - desc

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Excessive physical complaints that cannot be explained by a medical condition. Symptoms must last 6 months and cause distress

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Conversion disorder - desc

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Symptoms or deficits affecting voluntary motor or sensory function that suggest the presence of a neurological or medical condition. No medical condition and causes distress

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Pain disorder - desc

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Pain that is not a function of a diagnosed medical condition, and causes distress

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Hypochondriasis - desc

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Misinterpretation of bodily symptoms, resulting in a preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease, despite the lack of medical evidence

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Body Dysmorphic disorder - desc

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Preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance or an excessive concern about a small physical deffect, which causes distress

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pseudoseizures

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sudden changes in behavior that mimic epileptic seizures but have no organic basis

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Glove anaethesia

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A type of conversion disorder in which the person feels numbness in the entire wrist or hand

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Shenjing Shuairuo

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Chinese nerve weakness

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dissociative disorders - desc

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A set of disorders characterized by disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of environment

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amnesia

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inablility to recall important information and usually occurs after a medical condition or event

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dissociative amnesia

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an inabliilty to recall important information, usually of a personal nature, that follows a stressful or traumatic event

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dissociative fugue

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a disorder involving loss of personal identity and memory, often involving a flight from a person's usual place of residence

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dissociative identity disorder

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presence within a person of two or more distinct personality states, each with its own pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self

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depersonalization disorder

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a persistent and recurrent feeling of being detached from one's own mental processes or body, described as being an external observer of one's own body

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iatrogenic

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a disease that may be inadvertantly caused by a physician, by a medical or surgical treatment or by a diagnotic procedure

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facitiious disorder

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symptoms of illness are intentionally produced in what appears to be a desire to assume a sick role

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malingering

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symptoms of illness are intentionally produced to avoid military service, prosectution, work, etc.

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factitious disorder by proxy

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symptoms of illness are intentionally produced in another person - most often a child, by a parent - with no external incentive

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Briquet's Syndrome/Hysteria

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Same as Somatization Disorder

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Possible reasons for DID

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Abnormal brain activity
Childhood trauma