PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anxiety Disorder, Conversion Disorder, Factitious Disorder Imposed On Self
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Very high level of anxiety about having or developing a serious illness. There are no or very little actual symptoms. One or more physical symptoms that affect motor or sensory functioning. No identifiable medical causes and presentation is often inconsistent with a true neurological cause. Guilt over sexual feelings are being converted into sexual symptoms. Many male soldiers experienced this (so no longer viewed as a female-exclusive disorder) An individual is intentionally faking being ill (instead of truly believing in.
