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HYPOCHONDRIASIS DISORDER  A somatoform disorder.Preoccupied either with fears of contracting a serious disease or with idea that of having that disease even though they do not. It is based on misinterpretation of one or more bodily signs or symptoms. There will be no medical conditions present. ▸ Condition has to persist 6 months for diagnosis ➤ Generally resistant to the idea that their problem is psychological  ➤ Occur about equally in men and women, can start at any age, early adulthood is the most common age of onset.  ➤ It regarded as a persistent disorder if it is not treated suffer from mood disorders, panic disorders or other types of somatic symptom disorders. Causal factors -cognitive behavioural, secondary reinforcement.

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER Dissociative disorders are a group of conditions involving disruptions in a person's normally integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception. The term dissociation refers to the human mind's capacity to engage in complex mental activity in channels split off from, or independent of, conscious awareness ➤ Concept of dissociation was first promoted over a century ago by the French neurologist Pierre Janet (1859-1947). ➤ Dissociation only becomes pathological when the dissociative symptoms are "perceived as disruptive, invoking a loss of needed information, as producing discontinuity of experience" or as "recurrent, jarring involuntary intrusions into executive functioning and sense of self". ➤ In people with dissociative disorders, normally integrated and well-coordinated multichannel quality of human cognition becomes much less coordinated and integrated, affected person may be unable to access informa...