PSYC 300 Study Guide - Somatic Symptom Disorder, Basal Ganglia, Somatization Disorder
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Obsession usually but not always followed by compulsion. Significant distress or impairment in functioning or very time consuming. 25-50% people with ocd also have tic disorders. Shell shock- mix of what we call ptsd and conversion disorder today. Experienced, witnessed or confronted with an event involving actual or threated death or serious injury to self other and react with intense fear, helplessness or horror. Must be a trauma and triad of symptoms: re-experiencing, avoidance and numbing, arousal. Numerous physical complaints with no identifiable medical cause. One or more physical symptom that affects motor or sensory function. Freud sexual anxiety or guilt converted to physical symptoms. Conversion disorder huge decline in incidence and now relatively rare. Preoccupation that one has a serious medical condition. Doctor shopping, lots of over the counter drugs. Person has pain that is of greater severity or duration than can be explained by medical physical causes.
