Identify the features and epidemiology of somatic symptom disorders
What will be an ideal response?
- somatization is a tendency to communicate distress through physical symptoms and to pursue medical help for the symptoms
- somatization disorder refers to the presence of using medicine to explain the pain and gastrointestinal, sexual, and pseudoneurological symptoms
- somatic symptom disorder involves vague complaints of pain in areas where such pain would be difficult to verify
- conversion disorder refers to medically unexplained pseudoneurological symptoms
- illness anxiety disorder refers to excessive concern that one has a serious disease
- somatization is common among medical patients, but formal somatic symptom disorders are less prevalent
- the most common somatic symptom disorder is illness anxiety disorder.
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