Traumatic life history and co-existing psychiatric disorders in adolescents with a diagnosis of conversion disorder
Journal Title: Cumhuriyet Medical Journal - Year 2016, Vol 38, Issue 4
Abstract
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the relation between the perception of self and other important individuals’, the ways of this perception and the self-esteem, comorbid psychopathologies and the traumatic experiences in adolescents took the diagnosis of Conversion Disorder (CD). Method: A total of 20 adolescent girls aged 12-18 took the diagnosis of CD and have still being followed were included in the study as experimental group and 20 healthy girl adolescents paired with the experimental group in the terms of age, gender, educational status. Both of groups were evaluated with Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version, Rosenberg Self- Esteem Scale. Results: Adolescents with CD have more psychopathology levels, lower self-esteem. Traumatic experiences, including sexual abuse in particular have been identified in patients more commonly than the controls. Discussion: CD is usually accompanied with mood disorders. These are followed by anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders and personality disorders respectively. In a study, patients who experienced pseudoseizures have been reported to have borderline personality disorders by %55, histrionic personality disorder by %16 and, antisocial personality disorder by %11.
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Seda Aybüke Sarı, Emine Çığıl Fettahoğlu, Esin Özatalay, Ayla Uzun
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- DOI 10.7197/cmj.v38i3.5000163351
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