somatic symptom disorder
Sign in to saveAlso known as SSD, psychophysiologic disorder, somatisation, psychosomatic disorder, physiological malfunction arising from mental factor, somatoform disorder, somatization Disorder
category of mental disorder
Key facts
- Specialty
- Psychiatry , psychology
- Symptoms
- Maladaptive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in response to chronic physical symptoms
- Complications
- Reduced functioning, unemployment , financial stress, interpersonal difficulties
- Usual onset
- Childhood
- Duration
- At least six months
- Causes
- Heightened awareness of bodily sensations and the tendency to misinterpret bodily sensations
- Risk factors
- Childhood neglect and abuse , chaotic lifestyle, history of substance and alcohol abuse , psychosocial and biopsychosocial stressors
- Diagnostic method
- Physical exam , Psychiatric assessment
- Differential diagnosis
- Adjustment disorder , body dysmorphic disorder , obsessive–compulsive disorder , hypochondriasis
- Treatment
- Cognitive behavioral therapy , medication , interpersonal psychotherapy
- Medication
- Antidepressants ( selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors , serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors )
- Prognosis
- Often chronic, but can be managed with the proper treatment
- Frequency
- About 13–23% of the general population
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
6,304 papers- Management of somatic symptom disorder.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2018
- Somatic Symptom Disorder.American family physician · 2016
- Somatic symptom disorder: a scoping review on the empirical evidence of a new diagnosis.Psychological medicine · 2022
- Psychological risk factors of somatic symptom disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2024
- Functional neurological disorder and somatic symptom disorder in Parkinson's disease.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2022
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
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- health specialty
- psychiatry
- topic's main category
- Category:Somatic symptom disorders
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C34956
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:4737
- ICD-9-CM
- 300.8
- ICPC 2 ID
- P75
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
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Encyclopedic overview
Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is a mental health condition characterised by an excessive focus on physical symptoms—such as pain or shortness of breath—that cause significant distress or impairment. Individuals with SSD experience disproportionate thoughts, emotions, and behaviors related to their symptoms. The symptoms themselves are not deliberately produced or feigned (as they are in malingering and factitious disorders), and their underlying cause—whether organic, psychogenic or unexplained—is irrelevant to the diagnosis.
Manifestations of somatic symptom disorder are variable; symptoms can be widespread, specific, and often fluctuate. Somatic symptom disorder corresponds to how an individual views and reacts to symptoms rather than the symptoms themselves, and it can develop in the setting of existing chronic illness or newly onset conditions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “somatic symptom disorder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.