Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is a mental health condition that causes people to intently focus on their physical symptoms. This may cause distress or interfere with their daily activities. Other ...

Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) causes extreme anxiety about physical symptoms, which can disrupt your daily life. You can try ...

WHETHER YOU HAVE pain related to an injury, chronic symptoms from an illness, or just feel tired all the time, it’s understandable to worry about your health and even experience anxiety over it. But ...

Every doctor encounters patients who complain of symptoms without identifiable physical causes. According to a recent review in The Lancet, one third of all symptoms lack somatic explanations. How can ...

Many people use the word hypochondriac when they think someone is excessively concerned with their health or "imagining" an illness — and until 2013, "hypochondria" was an official mental health ...

The Patient Health Questionnaire 15 (PHQ-15), which measures somatic symptom burden, and the Somatic Symptom Disorder B-criteria scale 12 (SSD-12), which measures symptom preoccupation, are widely ...

Experts offer advice for treating symptoms of ovarian, breast, and other cancers that are not driven by depression and ...

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A recent study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that individuals who experience persistent visual ...

Several psychological factors have been proposed to be associated with functional somatic disorders (FSD). However, large population-based studies investigating the importance of both personality and ...

Illness anxiety disorder, also known as hypochondria or hypochondriasis, is a chronic psychiatric condition in which a person without medical symptoms is preoccupied with worry about having or being ...

Somatic symptom disorder is defined as mental health disorders that are characterized by prominent perceived somatic symptoms which result in distress and impairment to the individual. The Diagnostic ...