PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Hypochondriasis, Classical Conditioning, Conversion Disorder
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Mental health is not just an individual thing, a presence or absence of something that causes mental illness everyone has a little bit of many disorders. It"s when things become maladaptive that we become mentally ill". Somatization disorder (<1%w, 0%m) more occurring in women. Wide-ranging complaints of health issues (without basis) Complaints must include at least 13 (of 35) symptoms. Must have lead to meds, doctor visits, or changes in life. Similar to, but different from, hypochondriasis: hypochondriacs they become ill" after they"ve heard of a current disease going around) Runs in families, related to alcoholism in males? (so when men get it, they usually become alcoholics too) A person is classified as having a somatoform disorder when they consistently complain of bodily (health) problems which appear to have no physiological basis. Not as common a disorder as it was when. Blindness, deafness, loss of feeling, paralysis (neurological) Must be associated with a psychological trigger.