PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conversion Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Hypochondriasis
5 Apr 2016
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Manic mood is abnormally high extreme cases: sleep loss, heart attack. Depressive mood is abnormally low extreme cases: can"t talk. *both can be anywhere from mild to extreme episodes. Moods changes very quickly or over a length of time. High suicide risk when they begin to recover. Sometimes they create the impression that they are doing better when they actually aren"t. Experiences pain, yet there is nothing wrong physically. Most of the pain is psychological and diicult to tolerate. Mind creates it as an alarm to stop what you"re doing (signal pain) Physical pain is more like pressure and more tolerable. When someone complains about a large number of symptoms that doesn"t make sense and there"s nothing wrong with them. Person pays too much attention to their own body. The belief that you have an illness even though the doctor(s) say otherwise. Losing function of an organ or body part even though there is nothing physically wrong ex. blindness, paralysis.
