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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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| involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause. |
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| extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident. |
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-true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintenance.
- similar to conversion disorder |
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| Physical malfunction, 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.
-closely related to conversion disorder |
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-Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except, possibly, sympathy and attention.
- similar to conversion disorder |
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| Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) |
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| disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance ("imagined ugliness") |
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| losing a sense of the reality of the external world. |
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| Depersonalization Disorder |
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| feelings of depersonalization that are so severe they dominate the individual's life and prevent normal functioning. |
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| 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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| Localized/Selective Amnesia |
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| Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events. |
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| 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 (DTD) |
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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 (DID) |
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-Disorder in which as many as 100 personalities coexist within one body and mind. (Formerly AKA Multiple Personality Disorder)
- Amnesia & Fugue BOTH present |
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-shorthand term for alter ego
- one of the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder. |
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| lack of concern of nature or implications of symptoms |
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| Factitious Disorder by proxy |
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-when an individual deliberately makes someone else sick
- an atypical form of child abuse
- similar to conversion disorder |
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-of DID, the identity that keeps other identities together.
- usually develops last |
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| quick transition from one personality to the other |
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