What Do You Know about Co Morbidity?
Morbidity (from Latin morbidus: sick, unhealthy) refers to a diseased state, disability, or poor health due to any cause.
Co morbidity is the simultaneous presence of two medical conditions, such as a person with schizophrenia and substance abuse.
Source: Wikipedia.
Co-occuring disorders: quadrant classification model
Co-morbidity or co-occuring disorders refers to people who have a substance abuse disorder and a psychiatric disorder. Sometimes these patients are referred to as MICA, Mentally Ill Chemical Abuser. SAMHSA, the Substance Abuse and …
What’s Co-Morbidity, anyway? Lose these 3 foods!
And add the words uncontrolled or poorly controlled to any of the above, and unfavorable becomes morbid very rapidly. You may not think of yourself as owning any co-morbidity factors, but if you’re not sure just look at medications you …
Mental disorders can also have co-morbidity with other physical illnesses; either the illness may be a psychosomatic reaction to mental stress, or the stress may come from the diagnosis of a physical illness. …
Co-Morbidities Resistant to Medical Treatment?
Here’s the catch — in order for the co-morbidity to “count,” it must be resistant to “intensive medical therapies.” So, in other words, if I have HBP and diabetes that can be controlled by medication, these co-morbids cannot be used to …
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I am not sure that is true. I think there is so much that is unknown both in psychiatry and addition medicine. I have noticed that in eating disorders especially anorexia their tends to be a comorbidity of OCD. I do agree that there can be some mental hardware that can expose to
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Hi Karen,
Thank you for reading our post and taking the time to leave a valuable comment.
I found some research which you may find interesting;
“In a study by Thornton and Russel (1997) they looked at the relationship between Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and all of the dieting disorders. They wanted to test the hypothesis that OCD and the dieting disorders are ones which often occur together and try to establish this relationship in the literature. In this study, they looked at the cases of sixty-eight inpatients that were in the hospital due to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Thirty-five of these patients had anorexia, and the remaining 33 had bulimia. These cases were then analyzed using the DSM III-R Axis I and Axis II to determine whether they showed symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder…”
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Linda