somatic symptom disorders
syndrome marked by health concerns that are excessive given actual health and that persist despite contrary evidence and they interfere with everyday functioning
Illness anxiety disorder
worries they will develop or that they have a serious illness but do not always experience severe physical symptoms
functional neurological symptom disorder
features neurological symptoms that cant be explained by a neurological disease or other medical condition
interoceptive signals
sensitivity to stimuli arising from within the body
Factitious Disorder
A person will purposefully fake an illness to get attention primarily to get medical attention.
Factitious Disorder imposed on another
when someone makes someone else sick in order to receive attention for being a good caretaker
dissociative disorder
characterized by a disruption in the normal integration of memory, identity, consciousness, perception, behavior and motor control that disrupts one or more aspects of psychological functioning
dissociation
having an out of body experience
dissociative identity disorder
defined by identity disruption marked by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states in an individual
dissociative amnesia
cannot remember important facts about themselves or events that occurred while an alter was in control
organic amnesia
loss of memory caused by brain injury resulting of disease, drug, accidents, surgery
anterograde amnesia
can’t remember anything new
psychogenic amnesia
loss of memory due to psychological causes
retrograde amnesia
can’t remember anything from the past
dissociative fugue
an individual traveling to a new place without remembering their previous identity
depersonalization/derealization disorder
having frequent episodes during which they feel detached from their own mental processes or body as if they are outside observers of themselves
