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A habit cough is a chronic cough that has no underlying organic cause or medical diagnosis, [1] [2] and does not respond to conventional medical treatment. [3] This is sometimes called tic cough, somatic cough syndrome and previously psychogenic cough, but without clinical justification.
A lot of different things can cause a cough. But coughs are usually broken down into two main categories: acute and chronic. Acute coughs are ones that come on suddenly, usually due to an illness.
A chronic cough can be due to many things from asthma to post-COVID-19. Here's how to figure out why you can't stop coughing and how to treat it.
Classified as a "conversion disorder" by the DSM-IV, a psychogenic disease is a condition in which mental stressors cause physical symptoms matching other disorders. The manifestation of physical symptoms without biologically identifiable cause results from disruptions in normal brain function due to psychological stress.
Due to the determination of collective stress as the cause, medical sociologist Robert Bartholomew favors the neutral term mass psychogenic illness over mass hysteria, as people respond more favorably to a diagnosis of stress induced symptoms than to a diagnosis of mass hysteria. Bartholomew notes such outbreaks are not unusual in schools in ...
The violent coughing fits, the struggle to breath, and the high pitched "whoop" sound that some people make when inhaling after a cough attack are all telltale symptoms of this unpleasant ...
This pain can also be caused by psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression, which can affect the onset and severity of pain experienced. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential ...
These coughing fits can be so severe that they cause patients to vomit or break ribs, and they’re often accompanied by a whooping sound as the person tries to catch their breath.