New personality traits
- Excessive worry
- Fear of social situations
- Fear of illness or health issues
- Feeling guilt or self-blame
- Taking on too much responsibility
- Excessive concern for the welfare of others
- Never standing up for yourself, making your needs known, or putting yourself first
- People-pleasing
- Excessive self-criticism
- Holding on to secrets, especially if shameful Feeling ashamed
- Never getting angry or directing anger inward Avoiding intimacy out of fear of being hurt or betrayed
- Getting overly angry at little things
- Comparing oneself to others
- Being more kind and caring to others than you are to yourself
- Being fearful of being slighted or losing relationships Feeling unworthy or unlovable
FUNCTIONAL SYMPTOMS
In medicine, a functional disorder is one that occurs in the absence of a structural disease in the body. Here are the functional criteria:
- Symptoms begin without a physical precipitation; often occurring with no injury, often upon waking up in the morning, or during a time of stress.
- Symptoms persist after an injury has healed or they occur in the same location as an old injury that healed a long time ago, as we know, all injuries heal, and scars do not cause pain.
- Symptoms are in a distribution pattern that is symmetric in the body-in other words, a pain would be on both sides of the body, mirroring each other on the left and right side; this rarely occurs with structural pain, and structural pain would likely have positive physical findings pointing to an injury.
- Symptoms occur in a wide area, such as on one whole side of the body or on half of the face, head, or torso; this does not fit into a pattern that corresponds to physical damage.
- Symptoms migrate or spread over time to different areas of the body.
- Symptoms radiate to the opposite side of the body or down a whole leg or arm, unlike a nerve pain that would only affect the part of the arm or leg where that nerve is located.
- Symptoms occur in many different body parts at the same time.
- Symptoms have a tingling, electric, burning, numb, or hot or cold quality, when there is no evidence of actual nerve damage.
- Symptoms shift from one location in the body to another, either within minutes, hours, days, or weeks.
- Symptoms are more or less intense depending on the time of day, or occur first thing in the morning or in the middle of the night.
- Symptoms occur after, but less so during, activity or exercise. A structural injury acts in an opposite manner; it will hurt when used and is better when rested.
- Symptoms occur when one thinks about them or when someone asks about them.
- Symptoms occur when stress is increased or when one thinks about stressful situations.
- Symptoms are minimal or nonexistent when engaged in joyful or distracting activities, such as being on vacation or when thinking about something other than the symptoms.
- Symptoms are minimal or nonexistent after a treatment that is likely to activate the placebo effect, such as massage, chiropractic, Reiki, acupuncture, or an herbal or vitamin supplement.
- Symptoms get much worse after a relatively benign treatment, such as an injection, a chiropractic maneuver, a massage, or medication, suggesting a nocebo effect.
- Symptoms are triggered by things that are not related to the as foods, smells, sounds, light, computer actual symptom, such screens, or changes in the weather.
- Symptoms are triggered by an innocuous movement that would not cause tissue damage, such as picking up a piece of paper or turning one's head.
- Symptoms are triggered by the anticipation of stress, such as prior to school, work, a doctor visit, a medical test, a visit to a relative, or a social gathering, or during those activities.
- Symptoms are triggered by very mild stimuli, such as light touch, the wind, heat, or cold.