Understanding Unspecified Somatic Symptom and Related Disorder | Emocare Psychosomatic Medicine • Psychiatry • Primary Care Understanding Unspecified Somatic Symptom and Related Disorder This category is used when patients present with distressing somatic symptoms (pain, fatigue, GI or neurological complaints)…
Understanding Other Specified Somatic Symptom and Related Disorder | Emocare Psychosomatic Medicine • Psychiatry • Primary Care Understanding Other Specified Somatic Symptom and Related Disorder This category describes clinically significant somatic presentations causing distress or impairment that are important to…
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…
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 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…
