Understanding Factitious Disorder: Types, Symptoms, and Treatment | Emocare Psychiatry • Liaison Medicine • Child Protection Understanding Factitious Disorder: Types, Symptoms & Treatment Factitious disorder involves intentionally producing or feigning physical or psychological symptoms to assume the sick role, without…
Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions | Emocare Liaison Psychiatry • Behavioral Medicine • Primary Care Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions Psychological factors can alter the course, treatment adherence and outcomes of medical illnesses — for example anxiety worsening…
Understanding Conversion Disorder: Unexplained Neurological Symptoms | Emocare Neurology • Psychiatry • Rehabilitation Understanding Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder) Conversion disorder—now commonly termed functional neurological symptom disorder (FNSD)—produces neurological symptoms (motor, sensory or seizure‑like events) that are inconsistent with…
Understanding Illness Anxiety Disorder: Types, Symptoms & Treatment | Emocare Psychiatry • Primary Care • Liaison Medicine Understanding Illness Anxiety Disorder: Types, Symptoms & Treatment Illness anxiety disorder (historically “hypochondriasis”) involves excessive worry about having or acquiring a serious illness…
Understanding and Managing Somatic Symptom Disorder | Emocare Psychosomatic Medicine • Psychiatry • Primary Care Understanding and Managing Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD) Somatic Symptom Disorder involves one or more distressing physical symptoms (pain, fatigue, GI, neurological) accompanied by excessive thoughts,…
Understanding Unspecified Dissociative Disorder: A Complex Mental Health Condition | Emocare Psychiatry • Trauma‑Informed Care • Primary Care Understanding Unspecified Dissociative Disorder Unspecified Dissociative Disorder is a pragmatic diagnosis used when clinically significant dissociative symptoms (memory loss, depersonalisation, derealisation, identity…
Understanding Other Specified Dissociative Disorder | Emocare Psychiatry • Trauma‑Informed Care • Primary Care Understanding Other Specified Dissociative Disorder This category captures clinically significant dissociative presentations (amnesia, depersonalisation, derealisation, identity disruption or transient dissociative behaviours) that cause impairment but do…
Understanding Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder | Emocare Psychiatry • Trauma‑Informed Care • Primary Care Understanding Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder (DPDR) Depersonalization/derealization disorder involves persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from oneself (depersonalization) and/or the external world seeming unreal or dreamlike (derealization). These experiences…
Understanding Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder | Emocare Psychiatry • Trauma‑Informed Care • Primary Care Understanding Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder (DPDR) Depersonalization/derealization disorder involves persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from oneself (depersonalization) and/or the external world seeming unreal or dreamlike (derealization). These experiences…
