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Thank you for your continued hard work on this issue. It is beyond my brain power, and I know I am not the only one.
Now, I have friends with chronic fatigue - some of them would meet these criteria and some wouldn't - so if a person is unable to put this down or unable to get beyond the...who is just stuck with the B type considerations, we would consider that to be having CSSD.
B. Excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to these somatic symptoms or associated health concerns: At least one of the following must be present.
(1) Disproportionate and persistent thoughts about the seriousness of ones symptoms.
(2) Persistently high level of anxiety about health or symptoms
(3) Excessive time and energy devoted to these symptoms or health concerns
What on earth is a mental illness if it is not dysfunction of brain chemistry etc. I mean last stages of syphilis is just that - who needs psyches to ponder as understanding of viral infections/treatments and all things affecting the brain grow.
Valentijin ... Im using the dark background. If you highlight the post.. it will make those very dark not readable letters white.I can't read much of what you wrote, Suzy ... most text colors don't work against a dark background.
SSD Work Group Chair, Joel Dimsdale, says "Chronic fatigue is really almost a poster child for medically unexplained symptoms" at APA Annual Conference
In the next few days, I plan to post further notes on the presentation by Joel E. Dimsdale, MD, at the DSM-5 Track at the APA's Annual Conference in Philadelphia.
The Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Updates on Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for DSM-5 (Part III)
Monday, May 7, at 9 a.m. – 12 noon, in Room 103B at the Pennsylvania Convention Center
Chair: Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H. Co-Chair: David J. Kupfer, M.D.
Presenters:
1. DSM-5 Proposals for Somatic Symptom Disorders
Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D.
At the end of a brief presentation, Dr Dimsdale, Chair of the Somatic Symptom Disorders Work Group took a number of questions from the audience around proposals for CSSD and Conversion disorder.
One questioner asked: Chronic fatigue syndrome has not been a part of the DSM-IV so far. Would there be any place for that in the DSM-5?
Dr Dimsdale's response was: That's an important question. Chronic fatigue is an important, distressing, disabling condition - it is remarkably heterogeneous...remarkably heterogeneous. We feel that some patients with chronic fatigue would meet the criteria for CSSD - some wouldn't.
Questioner responds: And what would be the cut off point...or what would be the criteria to include some and exclude others?
Dr Dimsdale: Well, chronic fatigue is really almost a poster child for medically unexplained symptoms as a diagnosis - it's a very, very heterogeneous disorder and we would say that the B type criteria are defining. Now, I have friends with chronic fatigue - some of them would meet these criteria and some wouldn't - so if a person is unable to put this down or unable to get beyond the...who is just stuck with the B type considerations, we would consider that to be having CSSD.
Psychiatrists would start moving toward the day when they address psychiatric disorders in the same way that internists address physical disorders, explaining the clinical manifestations as products of nature to be comprehended not simply by their outward show but by the causal processes and generative mechanisms known to provoke them. Only then will psychiatry come of age as a medical discipline and a field guide cease to be its master work.
I can't read much of what you wrote, Suzy ... most text colors don't work against a dark background.