Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is a mental disorder in which a person has excessive thoughts and behaviors about physical symptoms—such as pain or fatigue—which may or may not have a medical ...

Alexithymia makes it challenging to understand that physical symptoms can sometimes be the somatic equivalent of underlying ...

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Nevertheless we think that our findings give important indications to consider a particular array of somatic symptoms as premonitory signs of T2DM within a long time window before clinical ...

Considering taking supplements to treat somatic symptom disorder? Below is a list of common natural remedies used to treat or reduce the symptoms of somatic symptom disorder. Follow the links to ...

New research found that taking a placebo pill, knowing that it contains no active ingredients, reduced the intensity of ...

Health anxiety, which is characterised by excessive worrying about illness, is a real condition that can — somewhat ironically — make you sick. But it's also treatable.

The findings were published yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.