PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
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Somatic symptom disorders: dsm-iv somatoform, dsm-5 somatic symptom (separate categories in dsm-5) Focus on distress: appeared to be medical conditions but didn"t have medical basis, somatic symptom disorder. Pain (used to be a disorder on its own but now it"s a subtype of somatic symptom disorder) Person has a somatic symptom(s) that are distressing, significantly interfere with daily functioning. Often normal bodily sensations that are not linked to serious disease but that are distressing to the person. Focus not on medically unexplained but on the amount of distress its causing the person: illness anxiety disorder, conversion disorder, factitious disorder, clinical description, somatic symptom(s) (must have at least 1, thoughts. A lot of worry, very focused on somatic symptoms. Worried about how serious it is, what it could mean: anxiety. Worry about what it means for their health: behaviours. Spend lots of time and energy seeing health care professionals related to their symptoms.
