Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

Now in this post we would learn about somatoform disorders and others. Somatoform disorders:- These are a group of disorders in which it is a mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms for which no particular cause or injury can occur. The physical symptoms such as abdominal or chest pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, palpitations, deafness, blindness, and paralysis are not oftenly explained by a physical or other mental disorders or by injury and are not side effects of medication, drugs, or alcohol. People who suffer this disorder may go various medical evaluations and tests to be confident that they do not have an illness related to a physical cause or central lesion. Whenever the patients suffer from this disorder they become worried so that the doctors are also unable to find a reason for their health problems. The symptoms are lasted for several years like the other illnesses. Examples of  Somatoform disorders are 1. Conversion disorder and  2.Hypochondria...

In this post we would learn about Sexual and Gender identity disorders:  Gender identity disorder which is the formal diagnosis used by physicians and psychologists to explain the person's significant gender dysphoria. It described the attributes related to transgender, transsexuality and transvestism and also it is a psychiatric classification. This Gender identity disorder in children is mostly common and is considered clinically distinct from GID which appears in adolescence or adulthood which has been reported by some as intensifying over time. Cross-gender behavior is strongly disapproved in many cultures. It sometimes results in significant problems for affected persons and those in close relationships with them. The Sexual disorders are divided into two types. They are 1. Paraphilias,   and 2. Dysfunctions. P paraphilias:- In this term para means abnormal, philia means attraction to or love. These are characterized by recurrent intense sexual urges, fan...

Now in this post we would try to learn about the personality disorders:  Personality disorders :- Personality disorders are starting patterns of thinking and ways of relating to and perceiving the environment and one's self. Whenever these traits become rigid and inflexible, founding impairment of working, distress, and conflict with others, they contains personality disorders. Examples of personality disorders are 1. Antisocial disorders :- Those people with this disorder may include persistent lying, apparent lack of remorse or empathy, inability to keep jobs or stay in school, lack of realistic, long term goals, maintain relationships such as marriage, poor behavioral controls, elevated self-appraisal or a sense of extreme entitlement, a history of childhood conduct disorder, tendency to violate the boundaries and rights of others, disregard for the safety of self or others etc., 2. Histrionic disorders :- The people with this type of disorder may suffer from exhibitio...

Now in this post we would try to learn briefly about the remaining disorders. Dissociative disorders :- These disorders are chronic or unexpected disturbances of memory, uniqueness, consciousness, or perception of the environment that are not caused by the direct effects of brain damage or drug abuse. There are four dissociative disorders. They are 1. Depersonalization disorder, 2. Dissociative amnesia, 3.Dissociative fugue and 4. Dissociative identity disorder. Its symptoms can include 1. Multiple mannerisms, thoughts and faithfulnesstjat are not equal to each other. 2. Headaches and other body pains cannot be explained. 3. Deformation or loss of related time 4. Comorbidity. 5. Depersonalization. 6. Derealization. 7. Great memory loss 8. Depression 9. Flashbacks of abuse/ trauma. 10. Loss of familiarity and personal connections. 11. Numerous panic/anxiety attacks. 12. Auditory hallucinations of the personalities inside their mind. Eating disor...

Post-traumatic stress disorder:- This is the development of symptoms like intense fear, helplessness, insomnia, nightmares, and diminished responsiveness to the external world following exposure to a traumatic event. Delirium and dementia:- These both are the disorders of abnormal mental processes of thinking, perception, reasoning and judgement also called cognition. Delirium is an acute and temporary disturbance in the ability to focus attention, perception, incoherent speech, irrelevant, rambling and   disorientation to time, place or person with memory impairment. It is a systematic syndrome caused by a chemical or disease-process which is disrupting the neurons of the cerebral cortex. Delirium tremens is brought on by withdrawal after prolonged periods of heavy alcohol ingestion. Dementia is a habitual loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment of judgment, memory, and abstract thinking as well as changes in personality. Dementia may be occurred by...

Phobias Part 2: Roots & Meanings Welcome to Lesson 176! Last time, we dug into anxiety disorders and what sits behind irrational fears . Now we're taking it a step further, diving into the world of specific phobias. If you want to really understand these terms, you’ve got to break down those tricky Greek and Latin roots—only then can you see what they truly mean in medicine and psychology. Here’s what we’re tackling: First, we’ll pick apart classical roots (mainly Greek and Latin) and see how they join up with “-phobia” to build precise names for all sorts of clinical fears. Next, we’ll look at phobias linked to diseases, body parts, how your body works, and dangers out in the world. Finally, you’ll get some hands-on practice spotting the key vocabulary you’ll need for clinical records, medical coding, and psychological evaluations. 1. Chorophobia - Fear of Dancing:  Chorophobia is a deep, often overwhelming fear of dancing. The word comes from the Greek "choreo-...