PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Traumatic Brain Injury, Bloating, Phantom Limb
22 Feb 2014
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Im tired all the time, im stressed all the time, no one listens, everyone says its in my head: cant pin down specific symptoms, gate control theory of pain. Focusing on the pain: phantom limb pain: when they have an ambutation they still feel sensations in the missing limb, gate wide open, cognitive factors such as appraisal of body sensations and catastrophizing, somatic amplification. Learning through experience or vicariously about disease: psychoanalytic explanation: Individuals with a tendency to suppress emotions may express psychological pain physically. If people in your family has certain illnesses you pay more attention to symptoms that you might have it: medical students and nurses have the highest rate of somatoform disorders, knowledge to magnify things. Internet has a huge impact: psychoanalytic explanation, repressing emotions/ memories, come out through pain, partly professionals fault bc they say that its either medical or its in your head.
