Body Schema Disorder

Body schema disorder is a psychological disease that is characterized by disturbances in the perception of the structure and position of one's body in space. It can manifest itself in the form of illusions, sensations that individual parts of the body are separated or increased in size. In this article we will look in more detail at how the disorder develops and how to help yourself and your loved ones.

Body schema disorder Prevalence of the disease. SRM is quite rare and occupies an important place in the clinical picture of many psychoses among the polymorphism of anxiety-hypochondriacal and mental disorders. An international epidemiological group estimates that the prevalence of somatic ideation disorder is between 3% and 6% of all people. Most often, disorders of somatic sensations occur in middle-aged women. Body schema disorders occupy third place among somatic disorders in the group of similar syndromes recorded in patients with schizophrenia. However, in all of the above cases, SRM occurs in most cases secondary. Among secondary SRMs, dissociative and conversion disorders are distinguished. Etiology and pathogenesis. The neurobiological mechanisms of diseases of the somatogene-dependent spectrum have not been studied. There are assumptions about the dominance of hereditary factors. It is assumed that there is a genetic component in the development of somatoform syndromes. Dysfunction of the nervous system, an imbalance between the processes of excitation and inhibition in the neurotransmitter systems involved in the control processes of autonomic regulation, and accordingly lead to the development of SRM. Another possible mechanism for the development of psychopathological