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| Pathological concern of individuals with the appearance or functioning of their bodies, usually in the absence of any identifiable medical condition. |
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| Disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and feel reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate. |
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| Somatoform disorder involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause. |
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| Somatoform disorder involving extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident. |
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| Physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it. |
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| Deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain. |
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| Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except, possibly, sympathy and attention. |
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| Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintenance. |
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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| Somatoform disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance ("imagined ugliness"). |
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| Altering of perception that causes people to temporarily lose a sense of their own reality; most prevalent in people with the dissociative disorders. There is often a feeling of being outside observers of their own behavior. |
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| Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world. |
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| Depersonalization Disorder |
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| Dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the individual's life and prevent normal functioning. |
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| Dissociative disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information; usually of a stressful or traumatic nature. |
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| Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity. |
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| Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events. Also known as SELECTIVE AMNESIA. |
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| Dissociative disorder featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity. |
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| Dissociative Trance Disorder |
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| Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction. |
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
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| Disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind. Formerly known as MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER. |
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| Shorthand term for ALTER EGO, one of the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder. |
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