Culture_Bound_Syndrome

Culture Bound Syndrome Throughout my reading, the most interesting syndrome/Illness was the Culture-Bound Syndrome. The DSM recognizes this syndrome suggesting that one’s culture and social environments have an important influence on the development of abnormal behavior. I completely agree with the diagnosis of this syndrome having witnessed a form of it throughout my adolescence. When I was a teenager, I attended a middle school called Chestnut Street School. I found the obsession not only to fit in, but the obsession among girls of my age was to have the need to “prove” themselves. Chestnut Street was considered to be a tough school. As the environment (being the products of low to middle classed income) was not so much “I need that pair of Abercrombie jeans” it was more of “I need to prove myself for respect”. When I was fourteen years old, my family moved to Ludlow (an high middle to upper income class town). My thoughts and beliefs that I was brought up to know changed a dramatic 360 degrees. Instead of the “I must prove myself for respect attitude, it changed to “I must have that new Abercrombie tee”. Or, I syndrome, culture, school, need, environment, myself, chestnut, being, worlds, street, prove, products, obsession, middle, ludlow, high, crowd, back, two, throughout, think, social, respect, popular, people, paper, out, now, must, let, influence, income, girls, family