(c) There may be skin disturbances, such as arrest of perspiration
or profuse perspiration, especially under the influence of
emotions, worry, and fatigue; such perspiration may also occur at
night, and in some cases the fear of tuberculosis may be associated
with such conditions.
(d) The lungs may become affected functionally, and there may occur
respiratory disturbances; coughing, hawking, apnea, dyspnea, and
asthmatic troubles.
(e) The heart becomes affected, bringing about precordial pain;
palpitation of the heart, bradycardia, tachycardia, and cardiac
arrhythmia.
(f) The stomach and intestines become affected, indigestion and
vague fugitive soreness and pain may be experienced all over or in
special regions of the abdomen; constipation or diarrhea may ensue.
(g) The renal apparatus may become affected and its activity
arrested, or, as is more often the case in the milder forms of
psychopathic troubles, there may be present an alteration in
the amount or frequency of micturition, such as is found in the
conditions of anuria and polyuria.
(h) Menstruation becomes disturbed, and we may meet with conditions
of dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, menorrhagia, and other disturbances of
the tubes, ovaries, and uterus.
(i) There are disturbances of the nervous system, such as headache
and a general dull sensation of fatigue and paresis of all mental
functions, with dizziness and vertigo.
On the mental side we find in the psychopathies the following
disturbances:--
(a) Affections of perceptual activity,--illusions and
hallucinations.
(b) Affections of intellectual activity,--argumentativeness in
regard to insignificant things.
(c) Affections of the moral sense,--scrupulousness,
over-conscientiousness, not living up to ideal states.
(d) Affections of religious life,--fear of commission of sins and
terror of punishment.
(e) Affections of social life,--timidity, blushing, etc.
(f) Affections in regard to objects, such as astrophobia,
acmephobia, agoraphobia, claustrophobia, etc.
(g) Affections of conceptual life,--insistent ideas.
(h) Affections of the attention,--aprosexia.
(i) Affections of the will,--states of aboulia, indecision,
discord, conflicts, and uncontrollable impulses.
(j) Affections of the memory,--amnesic and paramnesic states.
(k) General mental fatigue.
(l) Affections of sexual life,--impotence, perversion, and
inversion.
(m) Affections in regard to marital relations.
(n) Affections in regard to personal life,--diffidence,
self-condemnation, self-depreciation.
(o) Affections of apparent loss of personality,--feeling of self
gone.
(p) Formation of new personalities,--dual and multiple personality.
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