Re:Havana Syndrome: Officials stricken with illness on White...
by mr_toad on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:08PM
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4. Psychosomatic
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Re:Havana Syndrome: Officials stricken with illness on White...
by adsteel_ on Monday February 21, 2022 @11:44PM
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Somatic Symptom Disorder, sometimes called Psychosomatic Disorder, is defined in the DSM V and does not mean the symptoms are "all in your head". It refers to patients with a compulsive-to-the-point-of-self-damaging focus on their condition, even if that condition is a diagnosed medical condition.
In other words, it's not a blank check to ignore these people.
More on SSD here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704/table/ch3.t31 and here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532253
Re:Havana Syndrome: Officials stricken with illness on White...
by eyelidlessness on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @12:44AM
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To emphasize this, even if somatic symptoms are rooted in mental/emotional state, they’re still real and experienced as real.
Re:Havana Syndrome: Officials stricken with illness on White...
by readonthegoapp on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:56PM
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I used to think it was real
Big elaborate stories in newspapers and magazines
It's like a professional disinformation campaign run by ??? to convince ??? to ???.
And it was absurd the whole time I guess
But I'm still not convinced that anything is real here except growing evidence of an extremely compliant mass media