PSY 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
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Somatic symptoms and related disorders (formerly somatoform disorders) Thinking about your illness is what causes these conditions. Diagnosis made on positive symptoms and signs rather than the absence of a medical explanation for somatic symptoms. Genuinely are experiencing an illness but the illness is psychologically based. Disproportionate and persistent thoughts of seriousness of the symptoms. One or more symptoms of altered voluntary motor or sensory function. Preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness. Ex: you are worried that you have a brain tumor but you don"t show any signs of a tumor through scans and you have no symptoms. Pretends to be sick to result in some kind of gain. Deception behavior is evident even in the absence of obvious external rewards. Putting fake diseases on the people around them. Occurs within west african high school and college student population. Individuals complain being fatigued by their course work. Disassociation: being detached from what you are doing.
