Jan 3, 2026 · Somatic symptom disorder involves focusing too much on physical symptoms such as pain or tiredness. This focus causes major emotional distress and makes it hard to function.

Sep 15, 2024 · Somatic symptom disorder (SSD formerly known as "somatization disorder" or "somatoform disorder") is a form of mental illness that causes one or more bodily symptoms, …

Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is a mental health condition in which a person feels significantly distressed about physical symptoms and has abnormal thoughts, feelings and behaviors in response …

Somatic symptom disorder is diagnosed when a person has a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as pain, weakness or shortness of breath, to a level that results in major distress and/or …

Aug 3, 2025 · When mental factors such as stress cause physical symptoms the condition is known as somatisation. Somatoform disorders are a severe form of somatisation.

Jul 8, 2025 · A person with somatic symptom disorder has one or more somatic (physical) symptoms over a long period of time (usually half a year or more). Symptoms may or may not be explained fully …

Nov 25, 2025 · Somatoform disorders involve physical symptoms suggesting illness or injury that any medical condition cannot fully explain. Symptoms are real and cause significant distress or …

Jul 26, 2019 · Somatization is a primary symptom of somatic symptom disorder (SSD). SSD encompasses the old diagnoses of somatization disorder, hypochondria, and pain disorder. The …

Somatization is the expression of mental phenomena as physical (somatic) symptoms. Disorders characterized by somatization extend in a continuum from those in which symptoms develop …

Oct 21, 2025 · Somatoform disorders involve extreme health anxiety and physical symptoms without a clear medical cause. The most common types of somatoform disorders include somatic symptom …