Related conditions in other cultural contexts:  Concerns about illness (typically, phys-
ical illness) caused by envy or social co nflict are common across cultures and often ex-
pressed in the form of “evil eye” (e.g. in Spanish, mal de ojo,  in Italian, mal’occhiu).
Related conditions in DSM-5:  Delusional disorder, persecutory type; schizophrenia
with paranoid features.
Nervios
Nervios  (“nerves”) is a common idiom of distress among Latinos in the United States and
Latin America. Nervios  refers to a general state of vulne rability to stressful life experiences
and to difficult life circumstances. The term nervios  includes a wide range of symptoms of
emotional distress, somatic disturbance, an d inability to function. The most common
symptoms attributed to nervios  include headaches and “brain aches” (occipital neck ten-
sion), irritability, stomach disturbances, slee p difficulties, nervousness, easy tearfulness,
inability to concentrat e, trembling, tingling sensations, and mareos  (dizziness with occa-
sional vertigo-like exacerbations). Nervios  is a broad idiom of distress that spans the range
of severity from cases with no mental diso rder to presentations resembling adjustment,
anxiety, depressive, dissociative, somatic symptom, or psychotic disorders. “Being ner-
vous since childhood” appears to  be more of a trait and may precede social anxiety disor-
der, while “being ill with nerves” is more related than other forms of nervios  to psychiatric
problems, especially dissociation and depression.
Related conditions in other cultural contexts: Nevra  among Greeks in North America,