PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Pain Disorder
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The anxiety and depression may be the source of or cause of somatoform and dissociative disorders. Psychosomatic illnesses are genuine physical ailments because of part psychological factors (eg asthma is a psychosomatic). Somatoform disorders are not genuine physical ailments (psychosomatic are though). Somatoform disorders are symptoms that suggest a physical disorder but cannot adequately be explained physiologically (physically). Eg someone feels like they are experiencing a heart attack, but they are not actually experiencing one. Difficult to discover because u need to rule out all psychologically things first. Systems are often (but not always) described in dramatic ways. Other disorders, such as anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and personality disorders, often co-exist. Often marked by a history of diverse physical complaints. Complaints that are sexual in nature, gastrointestinal, or neurological. It is much more common in women, by a factor of 2:1. Dsm for says it has to begin before the age of 30 and must include:
