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risk factors for somatic symptom disorder
genetics,
being more physically and emotionally sensitive
being at risk of developing a medical condition(family history of disease)
experiencing stressful life events, trauma or violence, sexual abuse
depression, anxiety
having a lower level of education -
The DSM V focuses on how unexplained symptoms affect an individuals..
thoughts, feelings and behaviors -
qualitative features and life impact
time consuming
ridicule
ostracization
difficult to treat -
dissociative amnesia is divided into five distinct types of memory problems:
1. localized amnesia
2. selective amnesia
3. generalized amnesia
4. continuous amnesia
5. systematized amnesia -
depresonalization/derealization disorder
a disorder characterized by persistent or recurrent episodes of depersonalization (loss or change in usual sense of reality where you feel detached from yourself) and or derealization (unreality about the external world involving odd changes in perception surroundings or time) (not as far on the clinical side as DID) -
psychodynamic theorists believe dissociative disorders
involve the massive use of repression, resulting in the "splitting off" from consciousness of unacceptable impulses and painful memories -
illness anxiety disorder
to apply to a subgroup of people with hypochondriasis who complain of relatively minor or mild symptoms they take to be signs of a serious undiagnosed illness. -
factitious disorder (munchausen syndrom) (somatic symptom and related disorders)
intentional fabrication of psychological or physical symptoms for no apparent gain -
malingering (somatic symptom and related disorders)
the faking of illness motivated by external rewards or incentives -
factitious disorder imposed on another (somatic symptom and related disorders)
the inducing of physical or emotional illness in another person, typically a child or dependent person
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