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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]
Somatoparaphrenia is a type of monothematic delusion where one denies ownership of a limb or an entire side of one's body. Even if provided with undeniable proof that the limb belongs to and is attached to their own body, the patient produces elaborate confabulations about whose limb it really is or how the limb ended up on their body.
Somatic type: delusions that the person has some physical defect or general medical condition; Mixed type: delusions with characteristics of more than one of the above types but with no one theme predominating. Unspecified type: delusions that cannot be clearly determined or characterized in any of the categories in the specific types. [16]
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 ...
1 ⁄ 5 of all forms of psychosis of the schizophrenia spectrum; [2] 1.66:1000 among children (0–14 years) [2] Childhood schizophrenia (also known as childhood-onset schizophrenia , and very early-onset schizophrenia ) is similar in characteristics of schizophrenia that develops at a later age, but has an onset before the age of 13 years, and ...
Somatosensory amplification (SSA) is a tendency to perceive normal somatic and visceral sensations as being relatively intense, disturbing and noxious. It is a common feature of hypochondriasis and is commonly found with fibromyalgia, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and alexithymia.
The revised third edition (DSM-III-R) mentions ORS in the text, stating that "convictions that the person emits a foul odor are one of the most common types of delusion disorder, somatic type." [ 5 ] The fourth edition (DSM-IV), does not use the term ORS [ 5 ] but again mentions such a condition under "delusional disorder, somatic type", [ 2 ...