Psychosomatic disorder

Clinic

• Somatic symptom disorder or somatoform disorder is any mental disorder that manifests as physical symptoms
• The illness or injury cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition
• Anxiety and depression are very common
• Somatic symptom disorders are not the result of conscious malingering (fabricating or exaggerating symptoms for secondary motives) or factitious disorders (deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms).
• Somatic symptom disorder is difficult to diagnose and treat.
• Proper diagnosis and treatment requires cooperation of psychiatrists and neurologists

Definition

• Somatic symptom disorders are a group of disorders that physical symptoms wit no identifiable physical cause.

• Here is some old definitions, that are now categorized under somatoform disorder
  • Conversion disorder: They include the actual loss of bodily function such as blindness, paralysis, and numbness due to excessive anxiety
  • Somatization disorder
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Body dysmorphic disorder
  • Pain disorder

DSM-5-TR (2022) recognized somatic symptom disorders under the term somatic symptom and related disorders

Remedies

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