many physical complaints over several years that begin before age 30 that cannot be explained by medical conditions, but are severe enough to require medical treatment or cause the person to change their lifestyle.
Syndrome characterized by chronic and recurrent somatoform symptoms such paralyses, anesthesias, blindness, seizures, and head and body aches, with no medical explanation.
A somatoform disorder in which the person continually seeks medical help for recurrent and multiple physical symptoms that have no discoverable physical cause. The medical history is complicated and dramatically presented. Compare with hypochondriasis.
A kind of somatoform disorder characterized by chronic and recurrent psychosomatic symptoms, including at least four pain symptoms, two gastrointestinal symptoms, one sexual symptom and one pseudoneurological symptom. There is either no identified underlying medical condition or symptoms are disproportionate to what would be expected in response to an identified disorder.
A disorder characterised by multiple recurrent changing physical symptoms such as back pain, the absence of physical disorders that could explain them.
A mental disorder in which the patient reports miscellaneous aches and pains in various bodily systems that do not add up to any known syndrome in physical medicine.
prolonged pain and other symptoms that are not due to disease or injury
Somatization disorder (or Briquet's disorder) is a type of mental illness in which a patient manifests a psychiatric condition as a physical complaint. One prevalent general etiological explanation is that internal psychological conflicts are unconsciously expressed as physical signs.
