Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Somatic symptom disorders were common among people hospitalized for posttraumatic stress disorder. Somatic ...

Ashley Lauretta is a journalist based in Austin, Texas. Her bylines can be found in WIRED, the Atlantic, SELF, ELLE, elemental, espnW, Men’s Journal and more. Ashley Lauretta is a journalist based in ...

WHETHER YOU HAVE pain related to an injury, chronic symptoms from an illness, or just feel tired all the time, it’s understandable to worry about your health and even experience anxiety over it. But ...

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) causes extreme anxiety about physical symptoms, which can disrupt your daily life. You can try therapy and lifestyle changes to help manage SSD symptoms. For an SSD ...

There are five possible explanations whenever someone presents to a doctor with physical symptoms that have not yet been diagnosed: •the symptoms may be a manifestation of a medical illness that will ...

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 the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” As we head into the first full month of spring, as the words of Alfred Tennyson wend their way through the minds of so many young ...

Jim cannot move his left arm, which drapes by his side during the interview. He reports the problem started perhaps three months ago, around the same time a close relative passed away. He is not ...