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a neurologist and sleep specialist diagnosed anemia ( low iron) and said it could be possible for all the clients’ symptoms such as fatigue, hypersomnia brain fog, poor memory etc. This was based on lab work. He also indicated many doctors do not know how to correctly interpret iron levels in lab work. In the meantime, a psychologist was recommended by the general physician for brain mapping and sleep issues . The psychologist recommended a check of cortisol and histamine levels. However, he also mentioned that he noted signs of somatic /hypochondria /conversion disorder. The psychologist was made aware of the neurologist ‘s recommendations, and shown the lab work. He completely misinterpreted the lab work and thought the iron was on the high side. This is all very disappointing and shakes my confidence in the psychological realm of using this diagnosis in a careless manner. Addendum-patient started feeling better after a few weeks on the iron.
@@kitten6363 No they aren't. Disregarding a patient as faking their symptoms would be dismissive, but functional disorders and somatic symptom disorders don't imply that your symptoms aren't real, they simply describe the fact that no underlying cause for the symptoms can be found.
@@mathewcampbell7899 they are constructs mainly made up and used to abuse patients. They have made a new one, called "chronic pain syndrome" which allows them to even dismiss people that have an actual, proven, physical disease, or even more than one, (which happened in my case) and still deem that your symptoms are not being caused by the real disease(s) that you have, but in fact you are malingering. Even your diseases are not the reason for your symptoms. What can you do when they accuse you of something like that? I am still in a state of shock. at how evil drs are. They have no limits on their evilness.
@@kitten6363 Chronic pain syndrome does not exclude the possibility that you also have a concurrent illness. It refers to suffering with long term pain alongside other psychiatric problems like anxiety and depression. These diagnoses are not made up to abuse patients and the fact that you think so is rather obscene. They are diagnoses with specific criteria namely, that you have symptoms which would normally be indicative of a disease but no evidence of any disease can be found with imaging and other investigations. Once again, this is NOT the same as claiming that you aren't experiencing the symptoms you present with. Nobody can tell you that you don't have pain if you are feeling pain. That isn't how this works. You are mixing up your terms here and don't have an understanding of what the diagnostic criteria for these various diagnoses are. Malingering isn't a term that gets slapped on any patient a doctor wants to dismiss but again has specific criteria required for a diagnosis. In the case of malingering the patient is taking efforts to fake or induce illness in the pursuit of a secondary gain (such as pain medications or a sick note to get time off work). It sounds as though you have had some troublesome experiences with medical professionals in the past which have entirely tainted your view of certain professions in an irrational manner. These diagnoses do not exist to abuse patients but are used to refer to very specific cases with particular criteria that have to be met for a diagnosis to be made. I'm very sorry if you have suffered negative experiences at the hands of healthcare professionals but those experiences don't make you an expert in the field of psychiatry and don't substantiate your claims that doctors made these things up to abuse their patients.
I thought somatization disorder hypochondriasis and pain disorder were ll subsumed under somatic symptom disorder. please someone confirm or correct this. thanks.
Are patients with conversion disorder worried or not worried about their condition? How can they be on one hand feel distressed but on the other have la belle indifference?
relike868p I have somatic symptom disorder (SSD) and I research on the internet usually 3 hrs a day trying to find my “real diagnosis” that the doctors have missed (the reason I put it in quotations is because I’m starting to agree that maybe I just have SSD not some mystery disorder) it causes me a great deal of distress.
I know this post is old but I could not help but feel for you and your circumstances. just be careful not to ignore actual symptoms you may be experiencing I went three years being told it was psychosomatic , I then was diagnosed with MS which at times will not show MRI proof till later on. now I'm right back on the internet trying to figure out what's wrong with my daughter who is now showing psychosomatic symptoms she's only 11.
They are worried and get a work up of test see specialists get MRI or the like. The le belle indifference is the fact that you continue to go on with your daily life as usual. When having episodes you dont let it stop you from doing whatever it is your doing. Others may be concerned, but your like "oh,no Im fine".
Pure psychopathy at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="660">11:00</a>. The only reason he says to check your patient over for something organic before accusing them of having a somatic symptom disorder, is because there could be "money loss" for the physician. He has no concern for the patient. Its also disgusting toward the beginning of the video where he states that it only takes ONE symptom now, rather than several, in order for the physician to gratify his sadistic urges and accuse a suffering patient of having somatic symptom disorder. Im trying to figure out the psychology of why "physicians" peddle (and swallow!) this garbage. Im figuring that, like small children, they simply fill in the blanks when the answers aren't there, in order to feel in control, or more accurately, in the case of physicians, to just get the case off of their plate as rapidly as possible. For example, a small child will actually believe it must have been somehow his fault when something happens to him. This is because it is preferable to feel some control, than to realize he had none. Similarly, these "physicians", instead of realizing that they have next to no diagnostic or actual physician abilities, blame the patient, and their absurd egos are so large that they actually believe that that if they didn't diagnose something in 5 seconds, that it doesn't exist. Note: comparing them to mistreated children was way too sympathetic of an argument, but only used to illustrate how they just fill in the blanks when they don't know the answer.
