What are psychosomatic symptoms? What is a somatic symptom disorder? What are the different types of personality disorders? What are some common personality disorders? Which substance use disorder is most commonly diagnosed? What are the different types of psychotic disorders?
Psychosomatic illnesses: Psychosomatic illnesses are disorders that have physical symptoms that do not arise from a medical disorder. In other words, there is no explanation for the symptoms, so they are presumed to be a manifestation of the psyche. Usually, the symptoms are exaggerated, and the...
The causes of psychiatric and psychosomatic conditions can be categorized into two groups:proximate and ultimate (evolutionary) causes. Proximate causes comprise genetic factors, epigenetic modulation, childhood trauma and other life events, and senescence. What are examples of psychological symptoms? Exampl...
The illnesses discussed here tend to have very specific disease markers, symptoms, and tissue damage; therefore, there is less of a historical tendency to label the illnesses I will describe as psychosomatic, in contrast to the immune-related illnesses I described in Chapter 5. There are decades...
Health psychologists investigate the link between people’s emotions, behavior, and consequences on their lives. They’ll help you understand emotional eating orpsychosomatic illnesses. Making good health choices is the primary goal of a health psychologist. They want to help their patients function in...
Of course, there's some nuance to these situations. Healthcare providers balance a lot when examining a patient, and there's the very real issue of assessing what could be psychosomatic symptoms. That leaves a lot of gray area between a provider exploring all diagnostic options and a...
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Somatization disorder is one of the somataform disorders, psychosomatic illnesses in which patients experience symptoms of pain and disease that cannot be traced to a medical condition. Commonly, a patient will complain of the same set of symptoms for a long period of time. After extensive medical...
Chances are you have been experiencing physical pain caused in part by a stressful situation. This post is the first in a series that will help you reduce this type of pain–called “psychosomatic pain” because it involves both mind (“psyche”) and body (“soma”). Psychosomatic pain ...
Conversely, major depression may cause FM, a classic psychosomatic theory. But most patients with FM are not depressed, and the variable temporal relationship of depression and pain militates against the theories.39 The association more likely relates to a sharing of common biological40 or ...