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•Latin cultures, esp. in Caribbean
•Symptoms include uncontrollable shouting, attacks of crying, trembling, heat in the chest rising to the head, and verbal or physical aggression.
•Frequently occurs as a result of a stressful family event, especially the death of a relative, but also a divorce or fight with a family member.
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•Malaysia, Laos, Philippines, Puerto Rico, etc.
•A dissociative episode characterized by a period of brooding followed by an outburst of violent, aggressive, or homicidal behavior directed at people and objects.
•Tends to be precipitated by a perceived insult or slight and seems to be prevalent only among males.
•The episode is often accompanied by persecutory ideas, automatism, amnesia for the period of the episode, exhaustion, and a return to premorbid state following the episode.
Some instances of .....may occur during a brief psychotic episode or constitute the onset or exacerbation of a chronic psychotic episode |
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•Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Siberia, Philippines
•Hypersensitivity to sudden fright, often with echopraxia (involuntary repetition or imitation of the observed movements of another), echolalia (the automatic repetition of vocalizations made by another person), commend obedience, and dissociative or trancelike behavior.
•More frequent in middle-aged women.
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•Southeast Asia, China (esp. Malaysia)
An episode of sudden and intense anxiety that the penis (or in the rare female cases, the vulva and nipples) will recede into the body and possibly cause death |
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•A syndrome of intense fear that one’s body, body parts, or bodily functions are displeasing, embarrassing, or offensive to other people in appearance, odor, facial expressions, or movements.
•Similar in some respects to Social Phobia.
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•North Africa and Middle East
•Experience of spirit possession.
•Symptoms include dissociative episodes with laughing, shouting, hitting the head against the wall, singing, or weeping.
•Individuals may show apathy and withdrawal, refusing to eat or carry out daily tasks, or may develop a long-term relationship with the possessing spirit.
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•American Indian groups
•Preoccupation with death and the deceased, sometimes associated with witchcraft.
•Symptoms include bad dreams, weakness, feeling of danger, loss of appetite, fainting, dizziness, fear, anxiety, hallucinations, loss of consciousness, confusion, feeling of futility, and sense of suffocation.
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•India
•Semen loss syndrome
•Characterized by severe anxiety and hypochondriacal concerns with the discharge of semen, whitish discoloration of the urine, and feelings of weakness and exhaustion.
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Personal space
Touch
Bodylanguage
Eye contact
Paralanguage
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•71-year-old male Native American
•Brought to local Indian Health Service hospital by his granddaughter
•Presents at general medical outpatient clinic with multiple complaints, most of which involve nonlocalized pain
•When asked to point to where he hurts, he indicates chest, then abdomen, then knees, and finally moves his hands “all over”
•In whisper, patient mentions phrase in his native language that translates as “whole body sickness”
•Granddaughter reports he “has not been himself” recently
•During past 3-4 months, he has stopped attending or participating in family and clan events, all previously important to him
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