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For the love of g-d someone please help me differentiate between these 3. Kills me every time.
For the love of g-d someone please help me differentiate between these 3. Kills me every time.
Conversion Disorder: pt presents w/ a physiologic disorder (i.e. right arm is paralyzed), but none of the labs/tests confirm that one really exists. Usually follows some sort of acute stress (i.e. divorce).
Somatoform Disorder: pt presents w/ actual chronic pain that is completely unrelated to an actual illness.
Somatization Disorder: pt presents with numerous complaints without any identifiable etiology. This is the one where they're supposed to have like 4 GI sx, 2 pain, 1 neuro, and 1 sexual.
Hopefully that helps.
Conversion Disorder: pt presents w/ a physiologic disorder (i.e. right arm is paralyzed), but none of the labs/tests confirm that one really exists. Usually follows some sort of acute stress (i.e. divorce).
Somatoform Disorder: pt presents w/ actual chronic pain that is completely unrelated to an actual illness.
Somatization Disorder: pt presents with numerous complaints without any identifiable etiology. This is the one where they're supposed to have like 4 GI sx, 2 pain, 1 neuro, and 1 sexual.
Hopefully that helps.
I'm surprised that pretentious poster peter90036 hasn't entered this thread and cried out, "GOOGLE!" yet.....
he must be spamming other threads at the moment....