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Somatoform Disorders

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SOMATOFORM DISORDER

HYPOCONDRESS DISORDER

  • 2 to 5 present of the population in America have it.
  • This disease can last years, but if coughs in early stages it can be cured.
  • Adolf Hitler suffered from this disease.
  • Anxiety comes with this disorder
  • The causes of this disease are stress, childhood neglect, and memory issues.
  • This disorder is where you think you have a medical issue but you do not.
  • The symptoms are dizziness, paranoid, and anxiety.
  • The doctor will run test to see how it affects them.

SOMATIZATION DISORDER

  • 0.1 to 0.5 percent of the population suffer from this disease.
  • To get better you need to take care of it in the early stages.
  • The symptoms are pain,neurological problems, and sexual systems.
  • You get diagnosed after they run test to make sure 100 percent that is what you have.
  • In some cases you are able to take Medicean
  • Causes are stress and distress
  • Michel Jackson had this disease.

CONVERSION DISORDER

  • Conversion disorder is when a person has blindness, paralysis, and other nervous symptoms that cannot be explained.
  • Some symptoms are weakness, paralysis, seizures, and a feeling of lump in throat.
  • Researches think it develops as a way for your brain to deal with emotional strife.
  • There’s no test to diagnose this disorder, psychologist usually use the process of elimination.
  • This disorder usually appears with severe stress disorders.
  • For most people, symptoms of conversion disorder get better with reassurance and time.
  • 11 in 300 people have this in the US.

BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER

  • The symptoms are you can’t stop thinking about what is wrong with you.
  • Treatment can help, but cannot cure.
  • The causes of environment, brain differences, genes.
  • The doctor will run a BBP, and if that doesn’t work they will send you to a psychologist.
  • This disorder appears with social anxiety.
  • Body dysmorphic disorder usually doesn’t get better overtime, in most cases gets worse overtime.
  • More than 5 million people have this disorder in the US.
  • A famous person that has this is Miriam Webster .