Glossary of Culture-Bound Syndromes
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Psychiatric syndromes which are endemic to particular cultures:
hwa-byung or wool-hwa-bung: (Korea) "anger syndrome".
Symptoms are attributed to suppression of anger and include insomnia,
fatigue, panic, fear of impending death, dysphoric affect, indigestion,
anorexia, dyspnea, palpitations, generalized aches and pains,
and a feeling of a mass in the epigastrium.
See also bilis and colera, below.
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shin-byung: (Korea) syndrome characterized by anxiety and somatic complaints
(general weakness, dizziness, fear, loss of appetite, insomnia, and gastrointestinal problems),
followed by dissociation and possession by ancestral spirits.
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Culture-specific idioms of distress and disease:
bilis and colera: part of a general Latin American idiom of distress and
explanation of physical or mental illness as a result of extreme emotion,
which upsets the humors (described in terms of hot and cold.)
Bilis and colera specifically implicate anger in the cause of illness.