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Disorders - G
Severe bodily distress disorder
All definitional requirements of Bodily distress transtorno are present. There is pervasive and persistent preoccupation com the symptoms and their consequences to the extent that these may become the focal point of the person’s life, typically resulting in extensive interactions com the health care system. The symptoms and associated distress and preoccupation cause serious impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational, or other important areas of functioning (e.g., unable to work, alienation of friends and family, abandonment of nearly all social and leisure activities). The person’s interests may become so narrow as to focus almost exclusively on his or her bodily symptoms and their negative consequences.
Severe personality disorder
All general diagnostic requirements for Transtorno de personalidade are met. There are grave disturbances in functioning of the self (e.g., sense of self may be so unstable that individuals report not having a sense of who they are or so rigid that they refuse to participate in any but an extremely narrow range of situations; self view may be characterised by self-contempt or be grandiose or highly eccentric). Problems in interpersonal functioning seriously affect virtually all relationships and the ability and willingness to perform expected social and occupational roles is absent or severely compromised. Specific manifestations of personality disturbance are grave and affect most, if not all, areas of personality functioning. grave Transtorno de personalidade is often associated com harm to self or others, and is associated com grave impairment in all or nearly all areas of life, including personal, family, social, educational, occupational, and other important areas of functioning.