somatic symptoms disorder
Cards (5)
- Somatic Symptom Disorder
- One or more symptoms cause distress and disruption of daily life
- Chronic, influenced by the number of symptoms, age, level of impairment, and any comorbidity
- Ineffectiveness of analgesics, history of mental disorders, unclear palliative factors, persistence without cessation, and stress
- Must be accompanied by excessive or disproportionate thoughts, feelings, or behavior
- Focus is on the distress that particular symptoms cause
- Individual's belief that somatic symptoms might reflect serious underlying physical illness are not held with delusional intensity
- With enhanced perceptual sensitivity to illness cues
- Illness Anxiety Disorder
- Preoccupation with having or acquiring serious illness
- Usually minimal to no symptoms, mild intensity
- Interpret ambiguous stimuli as threatening
- Develop in the context of a stressful life
- People who develop these disorders tend to have a disproportionate incidence of disease in their family when they were children
- Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)
- Altered voluntary motor or sensory function
- Incompatibility between the symptom and recognized neurological or medical conditions
- Unexpected neurological disease cause for the symptoms is rarely found at follow-up
- Too much use of denial
- Psychological Factors affecting other Medical Conditions
- Medical symptom is present
- Psychological or behavioral factors affect medical condition
- Psychological or behavioral factors are judged to affect the course of medical condition
- Psychological factors affecting other medical conditions is diagnosed when the psychological traits or behaviors do not meet criteria for a mental diagnosis
- Factitious Disorder
- Imposed on Self: individual present himself or herself as ill
- Imposed on Another: presents another individual as ill
- Absence of obvious rewards
- Malingering: false medical symptoms or exaggerating existing symptoms in hopes of being rewarded