PSYCH 2AP3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6, 7: Comorbidity, Gastrointestinal Tract, Traumatic Brain Injury
8 Dec 2015
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Topic 6&7: somatic symptom disorders & dissociative disorders. Chapter eight: somatoform and dissociative disorders deceive others. These individuals are usually preoccupied with their state of health and with various presumed disorders or diseases of bodily organs. Affected patients have no control over their symptoms: they are not intentionally faking symptoms or attempting to. Somatization is common in all cultural groups. People with hypochondriasis are preoccupied either with fears of contracting a serious diseases or with the idea that they actually have such a disease even though they do not. Their preoccupations are based on the misinterpretation of one or more bodily changes sensations, or symptoms of minor ailments. Another defining criterion for hypochondriasis is that the person is not reassured by the results of a medical evaluation. The condition must persist for at least 6 months for the diagnosis to be made, so as not to diagnose relatively transient health concerns.
