Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

Question 1

Multiple, current, somatic symptoms (e.g. cognitive: attention, worry and fear; behavioral: repeated check-up) that cause clinically significant distress or impairment and may or may not be medically explained

Answer 1

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Question 2

Enduring preoccupation of having or acquiring serious illness and extensive worries about one’s health (illness becomes part of identity) but no or minimal somatic symptoms

Answer 2

Illness Anxiety Disorder (Hypochondriasis)

Question 3

Neurological symptoms (loss of function) are found but incompatible with neurological pathophysiology

Answer 3

Conversion Disorder

Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder

Question 4

Falsification and presentation of symptoms, injury or disease to others, assuming a “sick role” and in the absence of obvious external rewards

Answer 4

Factitious Disorder

Question 5

One or more clinically significant psychological or behavioral factors that adversely affects medical condition by increasing risk for suffering, death or disability

Answer 5

Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions

Question 6

Somatic-like symptoms that cause clinically significant distress or impairment but does not meet full criteria and clinician specifies the reason

Answer 6

Other Specified Somatic Symptom and Related Disorder

ex. brief somatic symptom disorder, brief illness anxiety disorder, pseudocyesis

Question 7

Somatic -like symptoms that cause clinically significant distress or impairment but does not meet full criteria and clinician does not choose to communicate the reason, possibly due to insufficient information to make more specific diagnosis

Answer 7

Unspecified Somatic Symptom and Related Disorder