Females too suffer from Dhat syndrome: A case series and revisit of the concept
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Sandeep Grover1, Natasha Kate1, Ajit Avasthi1
1Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Abstract:
Dhat syndrome as a clinical entity has been rarely described in females. Ethnographic studies suggest that as in males, whitish vaginal discharge in females is also associated with depressive and somatic symptoms and many women with symptoms of whitish discharge attribute their depressive and somatic symptoms to the whitish discharge. In this report, we describe two female patients who presented with psychiatric manifestations also with somatic symptoms and attributed their somatic complaints to whitish vaginal discharge. In this background, we discuss whether this entity requires nosological attention and what criteria can be used to define the same.
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