HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder
5 Oct 2016
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We engage in many unwise behaviours and they go unpathologized. Body dysmorphic disorder: fixates over an aspect of their body. Feel like people are always looking at the body part. Perhaps the difference btwn mental illness and mental disorder is not a concrete thing: people who are mentally healthy also engage in these behaviours (everyone feels anxious, the line can"t, spectrum of experiences. At least one chronic somatic symptom that causes excessive preoccupation. Who makes that decision: rests upon the idea that physicians have a magical power to instantly make us feel better feel better. You are disordered instead of being comforted by the words of the doctor. Heightened bodily sensations; feels colder/hotter than other people, may feel pain more acutely. These behaviours can be very problematic in someone"s daily life: are they mentally ill behaviours or just problematic behaviours, medicalize many aspects of what it means to be human.
