Culture Bound Syndromes
  • 1. out of control trembling, crying, shouting, verbal/physical aggression, dissociative seizure-like or fainting spells precipitated by stressful life events
A) Locura
B) Brain fag
C) Ataque de nervios
D) Mal de ojo
E) Ghost sickness
  • 2. tension, headache, trembling, screaming, stomach ache, loss of consciousness precipitated by extreme anger
A) Bilis y colera
B) Rootwork
C) Qi-gong psychotic reaction
D) Falling out
E) Susto
  • 3. intense fear of humiliation due to phobia about appearance, odor, expression of body
A) Qi-gong psychotic reaction
B) Hwa-byung
C) Mal de ojo
D) Taijin kyofusho
E) Spell
  • 4. fright, soul loss, unhappiness, sickness similar to PTSD, depression, and somatoform disorder precipitated by a frightening event
A) Nervios
B) Falling out
C) Susto
D) Rootwork
E) Hwa-byung
  • 5. crying fits, diarrhea, vomiting, fear, when children at risk
A) Spell
B) Locura
C) Mal de ojo
D) Rootwork
E) Susto
  • 6. difficulty concentrating, thinking, remembering, blurred vision, somatic complaints of head and neck precipitated by school challenges
A) Brain fag
B) Hwa-byung
C) Nervios
D) Bilis y colera
E) Spell
  • 7. incoherence, agitation, hallucinations that are unpredictable or violent; chronic psychosis.
A) Locura
B) Mal de ojo
C) Spell
D) Taijin kyofusho
E) Susto
  • 8. psychotic, paranoid, or delusional reaction to involvement folk health practices
A) Rootwork
B) Locura
C) Ghost sickness
D) Brain fag
E) Qi-gong psychotic reaction
  • 9. preoccupied with death or the deceased, nightmares, weakness, loss of appetite, anxiety, hallucination, fainting, confusion, suffocation
A) Susto
B) Ghost sickness
C) Hwa-byung
D) Spell
E) Rootwork
  • 10. trancelike state, communication with dead
A) Spell
B) Locura
C) Ghost sickness
D) Brain fag
E) Mal de ojo
  • 11. collapse where eyes are open but can’t see or move similar to conversion disorder
A) Falling out
B) Hwa-byung
C) Spell
D) Nervios
E) Taijin kyofusho
  • 12. insomnia, fatigue, panic, fear of death, depression, anorexia, palpitations, lump in throat, body aches precipitated by suppressing anger
A) Ataque de nervios
B) Susto
C) Bilis y colera
D) Hwa-byung
E) Qi-gong psychotic reaction
  • 13. general anxiety, gastrointestinal complaints, weakness, dizziness, paranoia precipitated when under a spell, hex, witchcraft
A) Rootwork
B) Ghost sickness
C) Susto
D) Mal de ojo
E) Spell
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