SSD involves excessive thoughts and behaviors about physical symptoms that cause distress and affect daily life. Symptoms like constantly checking your body or repeatedly asking about a symptom may ...

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 ...

Somatic symptom disorders in primary care encompass a spectrum of conditions in which patients present with persistent and distressing physical symptoms that cannot be fully explained by identifiable ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in the JAMA Network Open, a group of researchers investigated the prevalence and severity of somatic symptoms among children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic ...

It’s not easy to discern somatic symptoms of cancer from physical manifestations of depression, according to mental health and oncology professionals. For one thing, these somatic symptoms overlap ...