Cases: anxiety, stress-related and somatoform disorders
Chapter 15
Cases: anxiety, stress-related and somatoform disorders
9 topics
- Case 3: A woman with attacks of palpitations and a fear of dyingA 29-year-old woman who has had several short attacks of dizziness, palpitations and breathlessness in three months, and has seen a cardiologist five times.
- Case 7: A mother who cleans twice a day for fear of infectionA 29-year-old mother who has become preoccupied with the fear that her children will catch an infection.
- Case 9: A woman who travels only with a companion or by taxiA 27-year-old woman, referred for back and neck pain, who can no longer go out alone, wait in a queue or use public transport.
- Case 14: A woman with a folder of normal tests and pains everywhereA 48-year-old woman, brought by her son, with pains and other bodily complaints in many systems and a folder of normal test results.
- Case 16: A woman with sudden crises who fears a heart attackA 26-year-old woman, referred after visits to many specialists, with sudden spells of palpitations and sweating in which she fears a heart attack.
- Case 19: A veteran who asks only for sleeping pillsA 46-year-old veteran of military missions who comes to an outpatient clinic asking only for sleeping pills.
- Case 23: A man who is late for work because of how he dressesA 42-year-old man, dismissed for coming late to work, who cannot get dressed without following a fixed sequence.
- Case 32: A woman who cannot move her right arm and leg after a quarrelA 34-year-old woman brought as an emergency because she has been unable to move her right arm and leg since a quarrel with her husband two days ago.
- Case 33: A woman who has been tense and worried for nine monthsA 27-year-old woman who arrives an hour early for her appointment and asks to be admitted at once, after nine months of constant tension and worry.