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There are cultural differences in the prevalence of somatic symptom disorder. For example, somatic symptom disorder and symptoms were found to be significantly more common in Puerto Rico. [48] In addition, the diagnosis is also more prevalent among African Americans and those with less than a high school education or lower socioeconomic status ...
Somatization is the generation of somatic symptoms due to psychological distress, often coinciding with a tendency to seek medical help for them. [1] [2] The term somatization was introduced by Wilhelm Stekel in 1924. [3] Somatization is a worldwide phenomenon, [4] with chronic cases being classified as somatic symptom disorder. [5]
[1] [2] In some cases, delusions become so elaborate that a limb may be treated and cared for as if it were a separate being. [ 1 ] Somatoparaphrenia differs from a similar disorder, asomatognosia , which is characterized as loss of recognition of half of the body or a limb, possibly due to paralysis or unilateral neglect . [ 3 ]
In delusional disorder, mood symptoms tend to be brief or absent, and unlike schizophrenia, delusions are non-bizarre and hallucinations are minimal or absent. [ 8 ] Interviews are important tools to obtain information about the patient's life situation and history to help make a diagnosis.
In children ages six to eleven, ACC showed manifestation in problems with social function, thought, attention, and somatic grievances. In comparison, of children with autism, children with ACC showed less impairment on almost all scales such as anxiety and depression, attention, abnormal thoughts, and social function versus autistic children.
Cotard's syndrome, also known as Cotard's delusion or walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. [1]
Oneiroid catatonia is considered one of the more favourable forms of schizophrenic psychosis. Spontaneous recovery is common, and with appropriate treatment, patients typically recover without significant long-term personality changes. Residual delusions may persist briefly after the episode, but complications are minimal. [5]
A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. [1] [2] Psychiatric and psychological glossaries in 2015 and 2017 identified thought disorders as encompassing poverty of ideas, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of thought content ...