Aggravation
Aggravation (from Latin aggravare: make it harder , worsen ; Latin gravis: heavy ) describes the significant deterioration of a condition over time. The term is most commonly used in medicine, where aggravation (as well as exacerbation or recrudescence ) refers to the worsening of a disease or a disease symptom .
An exaggerated representation of the severity of one's own illness or a symptom by a patient can also be described as aggravation, as the opposite of dissimulation or the trivialization of illness symptoms. This is to be distinguished from the simulation , in which the symptom is completely specified, while in the case of aggravation it does exist, but is either deliberately hyped up or perceived by the patient as more serious than it actually is. As long as a misdiagnosis cannot be clearly ruled out, one speaks of suspicion of aggravation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Self- observation In: Uwe Henrik Peters : Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology . 3. Edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1984, p. 513.