Sissi syndrome

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As Sissi syndrome (also Sisi syndrome ), an alleged form of depression has been known since 1998 , from which particularly active-looking people are said to suffer. Sissi-type depression is characterized by restlessness, volatility, physical hyperactivity , rapid mood swings, fasting , exaggerated body cult, self-esteem problems and numerous attempts at self-treatment. In about a third of female depressed people, these atypical symptoms should be in the foreground and make recognition more difficult.

The existence of Sissi syndrome is highly controversial. Jörg Blech sees the Sissi syndrome in his book The Disease Inventors as an example of invented and propagated diseases, so-called Disease Mongering . The name appeared for the first time in an advertisement, it was invented by a PR company and gained notoriety through interaction with the media and their readers.

The syndrome was named after Sissi , the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (see there for different spellings of her nickname), who is said to have been affected by this form of depression.

An independent group of researchers checked the popular claims and concluded in early 2003 that they were scientifically unfounded. The Sissi syndrome is therefore not an independent nosological disease.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Möller, Gerd Laux, Arno Deister: Psychiatry and psychotherapy. Thieme, 2005, ISBN 3-13-128543-5 , p. 85.
  2. ↑ Morbidly ill. ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.3sat.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 3Sat Kulturzeit, September 4, 2003.

literature

  • Jörg Blech : The Disease Inventors - How we are made into patients . Extended edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-15876-1 .
  • J. Blech: The abolition of health . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 2003, p. 116-126 ( online ).
  • W. Harth, A. Hillert: Sissi Syndrome & Tanorexia. In: Doctors Week. 40/2007
  • M. Burgmer, G. Driesch, G. Heuft: The "Sisi Syndrome" - a new depression? In: Neurologist. 2003, 74, pp. 440-444.