Somatoform Disorders
Somatoform Disorder Can create a wide variety of physical symptoms for which there is no physical cause.
Conversion Disorder When an emotional difficulties are turned into the los of a physical function. Loss of the functioning is real, but no actual physical damage is present. It persists. People are calm when it occurs is a symptom of disorder. People unconsciously invent physical symptoms to gain freedom from unbearable conflict. Hysteria Blindness Saw something awful – now can not see
Hypochondriasis A person in good health that is preoccupied with imaginary ailments The person spends a lot of time looking for signs of serious illness and often misinterprets minor aches, bumps, pains for an early sign of a fatal illness Doctors can not change their minds Hypochondriacs can not believe that a disease is not present. Equal between the sexes