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| - | '''Ataque de nervios''', also known as '''"Puerto Rican syndrome"''') is a psychological syndrome most associated in the United States with Spanish-speaking people from the [[Caribbean]] although commonly identified among all Iberian-descended cultures. ''Ataque de nervios'' translates into English as "attack of nerves", although it is used in its common cultural form to refer to a specific pattern of symptoms, rather than being a general term for feeling nervous. | + | '''Susto''' is a [[folk illness|cultural illness]] primarily among Latin American cultures. It is described by Razzouk et al. as a condition of being frightened and "chronic somatic suffering stemming from emotional trauma or from witnessing traumatic experiences lived by others". |
| - | == History == | + | |
| - | Ataque de nervios was first mentioned in Puerto Rico by US military psychiatrists who observed a young Puerto Rican experiencing unusual illness. | + | |
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| - | * [[Dissociative identity disorder]] | + | * [[Psychological trauma]] |
| - | * [[Nervous breakdown]] | + | |
| - | * [[Susto]] | + | |
| - | *''[[Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown]]'' | + | |
| - | * [[Hwabyeong]] | + | |
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Susto is a cultural illness primarily among Latin American cultures. It is described by Razzouk et al. as a condition of being frightened and "chronic somatic suffering stemming from emotional trauma or from witnessing traumatic experiences lived by others".
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