Psychosomatic Disorders in Media.

Directions

Find one of the following psychosomatic disorders in a book, TV show, or movie (suggestions follow).

Conversion disorder
Factitious disorder (including factitious disorder imposed on another)
Illness anxiety disorder
Malingering
Symptom somatic disorder

After reading or watching, discuss the following in your initial post:

1-Briefly describe relevant information about the person and their symptoms from the show or book.
2-Compare what you saw or read about the disorder with how the disorder is described in the DSM-5.
3-Did the person receive treatment or medication? Was that treatment what is recommended?
4-What were their family and friends’ reactions to the disorder?
5-Do you think this show or book helps or hurts the understanding of mental illness?
6-If you were seeing this person as a patient, would you do anything different than what was portrayed in the show or book?
PUT THE QUESTION THEN YOUR ANSWER

The following is a starting list; web searches will find many more:

2 Days in Paris (2007): Illness anxiety disorder
Afflicted (2018, Netflix): A variety (It’s one thing to work with a real, although psychosomatic, medical diagnosis; in this show, they also deal with illness not recognized by science; see Afflicted and the Tragedy of Fake Illnesses
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Amelie (2001): Somatic symptom disorder
Better Call Saul (2015 ): Somatic symptom disorder
Ferris Buellers Day Off: Factitious disorder
Greys Anatomy, Season 2, Deny, Deny, Deny: Factitious disorder
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986): Illness anxiety disorder
Hollywood Ending (2002): Conversion disorder
Loverboy (2004): Factitious disorder imposed on another
Memento (2000): Malingering
My Girl (1991): Somatic symptom disorder, factitious disorder
Safe (1995): Somatic symptom disorder
St. Therese of Lisieux (2004 movie or the real Catholic saint): Conversion disorder
The Act (2019, Hulu): Factitious disorder imposed on another
The Secret Garden (the book or any film version): Somatic symptom disorder
Tommy (1975): Conversion disorder