Ego dystonia

Ego dystonia (also ichdyston , egodyston or ego-dyston ) generally means that a person experiences their thoughts, impulses or emotions as not belonging to their ego . Ego-dyston can be both disease-related phenomena (e.g. panic attacks ) and non-pathological deviations such as B. the sexual orientation (see ego-dystonic sexual orientation ).

Mental states and symptoms are therefore not perceived as belonging to the own person , but experienced as strange and disturbing. As a result, those affected do not see them as part of their own personality and therefore feel stress . The opposite of this is represented by the ego syntony .

description

Indications of ego-dystonic phenomena are self-statements, thoughts and feelings of those affected such as: Sick , strange , incomprehensible , I want to get rid of this (again) , I don't even know what is happening to me , normally I'm not like that, I understand not myself etc.

Psychopathological symptoms and disorders such as panic and obsessive-compulsive disorder are usually associated with ego dystonia. However, ego dystonia can be lost if the disorder becomes chronic . The DSM-IV provides additional coding as an obsessive-compulsive disorder with little insight. Delusions and psychoses , on the other hand, are fundamentally I-syntonic.

literature

• C. Scharfetter: General Psychopathology . Thieme, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-13-531505-3 .

This article is about a health issue. It is not used for self-diagnosis and does not replace a diagnosis by a doctor. Please note the information on health issues !