PSYC 235 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Derealization, Brain Damage, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
23 Oct 2016
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Dissociative disorders: experiences as if you are dreaming so intense that they lose their identity entirely and assume a new one, or they lose memory or sense of reality and unable to function. Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders are very strongly linked. People with somatic symptom disorder do not always feel the urgency to take action but continually feel weak and ill, avoid exercising, thinking it will make them worse. Another example is experience of severe pain in which psychological factors, particularly anxiety and distress, play a major role in maintaining or exacerbating the pain whether there is a clean physical reason or not. They are real and they do hurt, whether or not there is physical reasons for pain. Physical symptoms are either not experienced at the present time or are very mild, but severe anxiety is focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disease.
