vertigo

Vertigo


It is my diagnosis that the 46 year old housewife has a somatoform disorder. A somatoform disorder is a term that is used when the patient experiences an assortment of physical ailments that have no apparent or obvious physical cause. Some characteristic symptoms of a somatoform disorder are fainting, blindness, paralysis, or deafness. The symptoms that a patient diagnosed with this disorder can experience used to be called hysteria, due to their puzzling, or mystifying origin.
Some very common characteristics of a somatoform disorder are gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea, which the patient was described as having. Pseudoneurological symptoms include impaired coordination or balance, and hallucinations that correspond to the loss of balance, or dizziness. During the patient’s attacks, she experienced dizziness, had the feeling that the roo...