Somatic symptom disorders (SSD) are a pattern of one or more somatic symptoms recurring or persisting for >6 months that are distressing or result in significant disruption of dai...
Determining that a somatic symptom is medically unexplained is unreliable, and it is inappropriate to diagnose a mental disorder solely because a medical diagnosis is not demonstrated. Rely ...
The goal of treatment is to help the person learn to control the symptoms.
It is not helpful to tell patients that their symptoms are imaginary. Enhanced or structured care as...
Elder WG. Personality Disorders. In: South-Paul J, Matheny SC, Lewis EL (eds.). Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Family Medicine. 5th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Educ...
F45.9 Somatoform disorder, unspecified
F45.20 Hypochondriacal disorder, unspecified
F45.22 Body dysmorphic disorder
F45.29 Other hypochondriacal disorders
F45.41 Pain disorder exclusively relat...
Diagnosis is based on a pattern of symptoms rather than an absence of medical explanation.
A clue is accumulation of several diagnoses with >13 letters (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrom...
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