01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Factitious Disorder, Panic Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
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1+ somatic symptoms that cause distress or significantly disrupt daily life. Mild physical symptoms lead to distress and anxiety that you will have a larger health concern later on. Excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to the somatic symptoms or associated with health concerns including at least 1: Disproportionate and persistent thoughts about the seriousness of one"s symptoms. Excessive time and energy devoted to symptoms or health concerns. Must be symptomatic --with any symptom, but not necessarily same symptom--for more than 6 months. Physical symptoms are not experienced at the present time or are mild, but severe anxiety is focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disorder. Share features with mood and anxiety disorders. Anxiety or fear that one has a serious disease. Reassurance from doctors is only helpful in the short-term . Even with a lot of reassurance from specialists that there is nothing wrong, they are convinced something is wrong.
