PSY 3171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Acute Stress Reaction, Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures, Dsm-5
19 Dec 2016
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Concerned with the symptoms themselves, not with what they might mean. Do not always feel the urgency to take action but continually feel weak and ill, and they avoid exercising, think it will make them worse. Sometimes individuals have difficulty relating to people except within the content of her medical symptoms (like someone would talk about their job, kids, or education) Experience of severe pain in which psychological factors play a major role in maintaining or exacerbating the pain, whether there is a clear physical reason for the pain or not. Persistent: severe symptoms and marked impairment for a longer duration that six months. Moderate: two or more of b criteria met. Severe: two or more symptoms specified in b criteria are fulfilled, plus there are multiple somatic complaints. Serious anxiety focused on the possibility of contracting or developing a disease. Physical symptoms are not experienced at the present time or are relatively mild.
