31. Do advertisements affect BDD? “ Your nose is central to the way you feel about your appearance and the way other people first perceive you. “ If you are in the slightest way unhappy about it, and feel it detracts from your looks, you will probably always be unhappy about it.”
– pain in 4 different sites or associated with different functions (e.g., back, head, joints, during sexual intercourse) 2 gastro symptoms other than pain (e.g., nausea, bloating, vomiting, intolerance of several different foods) 1 sexual symptom (e.g., sexual indifferences, excessive menstrual bleeding, vomiting throughout pregnancy) 1 pseudoneurological symptom (e.g., conversion symptoms, paralysis or localized weakness, loss of touch or pain sensation, blindness, dissociative symptoms)
This involves the use of a gatekeeper physician – like a primary care physician – who is assigned to screen all complaints and prevent the person from going to multiple doctors at the same time for the same complaints. The patient is also given training in relating to others without using physical complaints (e.g., talking to loved ones without bringing up physical complaints).
-arriving home but not remembering the drive; intending to go to your friend’s house but end up heading to work/school out of habit; calling a friend and being surprised when your mom answers because you misdialed
Both are also found among people with panic attacks • people who experience a trauma may have a dissociative experience such that the events appear to unfold like in a movie that is being watched. Dissociation is likened to a primitive defense mechanism – not surprisingly, traumatic events are often associated with dissociative disorders.