Potentially related syndromes anfechtung (Hutterites (a religious group)) brain fag (Nigeria) colerina, pension, bilis (Mexico, Central and South America) hsieh-ping (Taiwan (Province of China)) hwa-byung (Korean peninsula) narahati-e a sab, maraz-e a sab (Islamic Republic of Iran) qissaatuq (Inuits living within the Arctic Circle) References Historical and cross-cultural perspectives on nerves. Social science and medicine, 1988, 26(12): 1197-1259. Davis DL, Low SM, eds. Gender, health and illness: the case of nerves. New York, Hemisphere, 1989. Good B, Good MJD, Moradi R. The interpretation of Iranian depressive illness and dysphoric affect. In: Kleinman A, Good B, eds. Culture and depression. Berkeley, University of California, 1985: 369-428. Low SM. Culturally interpreted symptoms or culture-bound syndromes: a cross-cultural review of nerves. Social science and medicine, 1985, 21(2): 187-196.
Pa-leng, frigophobia (Taiwan (Province of China); south-east Asia) Anxiety state characterized by obsessive fear of cold and winds, believed to produce fatigue, impotence, or death. Victims compulsively dress in heavy or excessive clothing. Fears are reinforced by cultural views of the condition as a legitimate humoral disorder. Suggested ICD-10 code F40.2 Specific phobias Potentially related syndromes agua frio, aire frio, frio (Mexico, Central and South America)
References Kiev A. Transcultural psychiatry. New York, Free Press, 1972.