Correct Answer - Option 1 : Somatoform disorder
Concept:
Somatoform disorder: Type of mental illness which causes one and many bodily symptoms, including the pain despite lack of medical evidence.
Symptoms
- Specific sensations, such as pain or shortness of breath, or more general symptoms, such as fatigue or weakness
- Cancer or heart disease, but more significant than what's usually expected
- headaches, movement disorders, weakness, dizziness, fainting.
Causes: The exact cause of somatic symptom disorder isn't clear, but any of these factors may play a role:
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Genetic and biological factors, such as increased sensitivity to pain
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Family influence, which may be genetic or environmental.
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Personality trait of negativity, which can impact how you identify and perceive illness and bodily symptoms.
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Decreased awareness of or problems processing emotions, causing physical symptoms to become the focus rather than the emotional issues.
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Learned behaviour — for example, the attention or other benefits gained from having an illness; or "pain behaviours" in response to symptoms, such as excessive avoidance of activity, which can increase your level of disability.
Phobic disorder: A phobia is an excessive and irrational fear reaction.
Dissociative disorder: Dissociative disorders are mental disorders that involve experiencing a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions and identity.
Pain disorder: Pain disorder is chronic pain experienced by a patient in one or more areas, and is thought to be caused by psychological stress
