Psych - Lec 14 -15

Somatic Symptom Disorder - Treatment Cognitive Behavioral therapy approach

A mental health condition characterized by physical symptoms (e.i. pain, fatigue, shortness of breath) accompanied by excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to those symptoms with no underlying medical cause.

Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder (FNSD)/Conversion Disorder

Physical malfunctioning of sensory or motor functioning (e.i.. blindness, difficulty speaking) and lack of physical or organic pathology but retains most normal functions.

Facticious Disorder

Purposely faking physical symptoms for no obvious external gain (e.i. easy way out of court, paid leave etc.)

Facticious Disorder Imposed on another

A form of child abuse where parents or caregivers falsify accounts of a child's illness or cause injury to the child to elicit attention and sympathy.

Symptoms for FNSD

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), Psychogenic Dystonia (movement disorder), Sensory disruptions; hearing seeing numbness, paralysis, tremors and ticks.

Symptoms of Somatic Symptom Disorder

Pain fatigue or shortness of breath with no underlying medical cause.

Symptoms of Factitious Disorder

Feeding problems/anorexia, seizures, fever, infection, apnea with cyanosis (blueish skin)

Dissociation

A disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness , identity or perception of the environment.

Symptoms of Dissociation

Fogginess, sleep and concentration difficulties, disconnected from feelings and people, lapses of memory and lost time.

Depersonalization Disorder

A feeling that your body doesn’t quite belong to you or is disconnected from you. Being an outsider with respect to ones thoughts, feelings, sensations, body or actions. Individuals may feel as though they are observing themselves from outside their body.

Derealization Disorder

A feeling that you are disconnected from the world around you or “spaced out”. Individuals or objects are experienced as unreal, dreamlike, foggy, lifeless or usually distorted.

Symptoms of Derealization Disorder

Feelings dominate and interfere with life functioning, persistent and/or recurrent experiences of depersonalization, derealization or both.

Dissociative Amnesia

Condition where a persons experiences significant memory loss, typically related to a traumatic or stressful event not due to medical injury.

Dissociative Amnesia form - Generalized Type

Inability to recall anything, including their identity

Dissociative Amnesia form - Localized or Selective type

Failure to recall specific (usually traumatic) events

Dissociative Amnesia form - DF

Sudden unexpected travel away from one’s home or place of work with inability to recall one’s past.

Dissociative Identity Disorder - Multiple personality disorder

Individual experiences two or more distinct identities or personality states, each with its own pattern of perceiving, relating to, thinking and behaving.

Symptoms of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Change in sense of self, Loss of personal agency, Alterations in effect behavior, Consciousness, Memory, Perception, cognition, and or sensory-motor function.

Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder - Alters

Different identities or personalities

Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder - Host

The identity that keeps other identities together

Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder - Switch

Quick transition from one personality to another, often triggered by stress or reminders of trauma.