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There are cultural differences in the prevalence of somatic symptom disorder. For example, somatic symptom disorder and symptoms were found to be significantly more common in Puerto Rico. [48] In addition, the diagnosis is also more prevalent among African Americans and those with less than a high school education or lower socioeconomic status ...
Somatic type: delusions that the person has some physical defect or general medical condition; Mixed type: delusions with characteristics of more than one of the above types but with no one theme predominating. Unspecified type: delusions that cannot be clearly determined or characterized in any of the categories in the specific types. [17]
The SSD-12 is composed of 12 items. Each of the three psychological sub-criteria of DSM-5 somatic symptom disorder (cognitive, affective, behavioral) [2] is measured by four items with all item scores ranging between 0 and 4 (0 = never, 1 = rarely, 2 = sometimes, 3 = often, 4 = very often). The order of the 12 items alternates between the three ...
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the main signs of SSD are “excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors” related to symptoms or health concerns that include:
Somatization is the generation of somatic symptoms due to psychological distress, often coinciding with a tendency to seek medical help for them. [1] [2] The term somatization was introduced by Wilhelm Stekel in 1924. [3] Somatization is a worldwide phenomenon, [4] with chronic cases being classified as somatic symptom disorder. [5]
A delusion [a] is a fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. [2] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust their beliefs upon reviewing the evidence.
[1] [2] Patients observe these symptoms and seek medical advice from healthcare professionals. Because most people are not diagnostically trained or knowledgeable, they typically describe their symptoms in layman's terms, rather than using specific medical terminology. This list is not exhaustive.
In rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality. [9] Syndrome of delusional companions is the belief that objects (such as soft toys) are sentient beings. [10] Clonal pluralization of the self, where a person believes there are multiple copies of themselves, identical both physically and psychologically, but physically separate and ...