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- MAIN CHARACTERISTIC: involuntary, physical symptoms without demonstrable organic findings or identifiable physiological bases; involve psychological factors or nonspecific conflicts.
- GENERAL ASSESSMENT:
- Precipitant: major emotional, interpersonal stress.
- Occurrence of secondary gain from illness.
- GENERAL ANALYSIS/NURSING DIAGNOSIS:
- Fear related to loss of dependent relationships.
- Powerlessness related to chronic resentment over frustration of dependency needs.
- Altered feeling states: inhibition of anger, which is discharged physiologically and is related to control of anxiety.
- Impaired judgment related to denial of existence of any conflicts or relationship to physical symptoms.
- Altered role performance: regression related to not having dependency needs met.