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by mr_toad 1584 days ago
4. Psychosomatic
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adsteel_ 1584 days ago
Somatic Symptom Disorder, sometimes called Psychosomatic Disorder, is defined in the DSM V and does not mean the symptoms are "all in your head". It refers to patients with a compulsive-to-the-point-of-self-damaging focus on their condition, even if that condition is a diagnosed medical condition.

In other words, it's not a blank check to ignore these people.

More on SSD here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704/table/ch3.t31 and here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532253

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eyelidlessness 1584 days ago
To emphasize this, even if somatic symptoms are rooted in mental/emotional state, they’re still real and experienced as real.
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readonthegoapp 1584 days ago
I used to think it was real

Big elaborate stories in newspapers and magazines

It's like a professional disinformation campaign run by ??? to convince ??? to ???.

And it was absurd the whole time I guess

But I'm still not convinced that anything is real here except growing evidence of an extremely compliant mass media

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