functionless symptom
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January 26th, 2022
- functionless byproduct symptom
- the symptom inevitably follows from how the client solves some other problem
- "I have no social life"
- functional if eg fear of rejection, social fears etc
- functionless if eg person is workaholic and that's the functional symptom
- person who really hates being overweight
- functional if it's necessary to be overweight, eg to avoid harassment
- functionless if they use food to self-regulate anxiety and it's eating that's the functional symptom
- functionless helpless symptom
- client feels helplessly vulnerable as a result of trauma and has the expectation of ongoing helplessness
- El > when someone has a flashback, this isn't really a byproduct of a solution
- (I'm not actually sure of this! it's not a good solution but afaiu the flashback is some attempt to make sense of the traumatic situation or apply its insights to the current situation dream-mashup-wise)