1. Your patient complains about persistent preoccupation with fears of having a
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1. Your patient complains about persistent preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease; you learn, however, that this patient's belief is based on the person's misinterpretation of her physical symptoms. What would be your diagnosis?
a) hypocrisy
b) hypochodriasis
c) conversion disorder
d) dissociative fugue
e) pain disorder
2. What is the stigma of mental illness?
a) a type of behavioral
b) a negative view of psychological disorders
c) a gender bias in diagnosing mental illness
d) a type of cognitive therapy
e) any reserac0based knowledge of mental illness
Explanation / Answer
Answer 1. Option b Hypochondriasis
Hypochondriasis is a psychological condition in which a person strongly believes that he has a disorder which is serious and may be life threatening, even though there are only no or mild symptoms of illness seen in that individual.
Hypochondriasis is now describe in DSM 5 as somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder.
Eg person with chronic headache will feel and believe he has brain tumor and undergoes number of investigations even if not required.
Eg 2. Person with mild diarrhea believes he has stomach cancer or HIV due to which he is not going to live any more.
Answer 2. Option b negative view of psychological disorders.
People in the society have a negative view of psycholgical disorders and also for the people affected with such disorders.
Reasons for stigmatisation can be many as in
- lack of awareness about the disorders and it's implications
- development of stereotypes regarding the disorders
- labelling individual who behave different than others in society, as a psycho,psychopath, shizophrenic, manic etc
- discriminating the individual with mental illness in all the arenas
- negative potrayal of such individuals with mental illness by the media.
All these things lead to stigmatisation of mental illness due to which majority of the people doesn't come out for help.and treatment. To stop mental illness from increasing now should fight stigma and also people be made more aware of such Ilnesses so that they do not stigmatisation others.
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