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Professionals Specialising in Somatoform Disorders

Somatoform disorders cause physical pain and symptoms to appear although the causes are psychological and not health related. Signs of these disorders include an insistence for medical tests, getting a second or third opinion when diagnosis doesn't match what a person wants, as well as other physical and psychological problems. Various forms of therapy and counseling are helpful when dealing with somatoform disorders.

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Conversion Disorder
When a person suddenly becomes blind, paralyzed or has another problem with their body that cannot be explained, conversion disorder is usually diagnosed. The causes of this disorder are thought to be extreme stress or psychological problems. Online therapy with one of the highly...
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Somatization Disorder
Chronic complaining of physical symptoms that have no known medical cause is known as somatization disorder. Symptoms include a physical pain in one or more parts of the body that can not be diagnosed, meaning the source is entirely psychological. Normally, when tests come back n...
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Somatoform Autonomic Dysfunction
When a person consistently complains of physical pain in a single area of the body and no medical reasons for the symptoms are found after six months, somatoform autonomic dysfunction may be to blame. Diagnosing this disorder can be difficult because people tend to hide it after ...
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Somatoform Disorders
Somatoform disorders cause physical symptoms to appear even though there isn't a medical condition to cause them. The psychological nature of the pains and symptoms can cause people to continually seek treatment even when there is nothing medically wrong with them. Symptoms inclu...
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Unspecified Somatoform Disorder
When symptoms appear from two or more different types of somatoform disorders, this is the diagnosis given. The unspecified nature of this disorder means that the symptoms are going to vary, but in general they center around complaints about pain that have no medical cause. When ...
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