Anxiety Disorders



Anxiety disorders. Subtypes and symptoms. Somatization disorder. Etiology of somatoform disorders. Personality factors. Dissociative disorders. Mood disorders. Schizophrenic disorders. General symptoms. Personality disorders.
Making accurate diagnosis of somotoform disorders can be difficult, because the causes of physical ailments are sometimes hard to identify.
Somatization patients are typically very resistant to the suggestion that their symptoms might be the result of the psychological distress.
Conversion disoerders tend to have an acute onset triggered by stress.
Inherited aspects of psychological functioning, such as elevated sensitivity to bodily sensations, may predispise some people to somatoform disorders.
These disorders are largely a function of a personality and learning.
One payoff is that becoming ill i a superb way to avoif having a confront life‘s challenges.
Many people with somatoforms disorders are avoiding facing up tp marital problems, cereer frustration, family responsibilities, and the like.
After all, when you are sick, others cannot place great demands on you.
Attention from others in another payoff that may reinforce complaints of physical illness. When people become ill, thei command the attention of family, friends, co-workers, neighbours, and doctors.
Theorists advocating this schreme hoped to fing consistent differences between the two subtypes in etiology, prognosis, and response to treatment, and some progress along there lines has been made.
Although it seems fair to say that the distinction between positive and negative symptoms i enhancing our understanding of schizophrenia, it had not yielded a classification schreme that an replace the traditional subtypes of schizophrenia.
Estimates of the percentage of patient fallinf in each category vary.
Overall, the preponderance of studies have suggested that only about 20 % of schizophrenic patients enjoy a full recovery.
Overall, the picture is similar to that seen for mood disorders.
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