Somatic Symptom Disorder DSM5 - Symptoms and Treatment Ideas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 เม.ย. 2019
- What is Somatic Symptom Disorder and what can we do if we have it?
Somatic Symptom Disorder is a mental health issue in which the person experiences physical symptoms that are not due to a medical diagnosis. The symptoms are such that they lead to a lot of worry and anxiety for the person who often uproots areas of their life to compensate for the symptoms.
Physical symptoms can range from mild to severe and be very specific or general in nature.
The combination of a medical doctor, psychiatrist and therapist along with support from family and friends is recommended for dealing with Somatic Symptom Disorder.
Treatment should help the person more effectively manage persistent worries and anxieties that can intensify physical symptoms because of the mind/body connection.
IMPORTANT NOTE: A person who does NOT experience physical symptoms or if the symptoms are very minor, is more likely to be diagnosed with Illness Anxiety Disorder, often known as "Hypochondria."
To learn more about Illness Anxiety Disorder including recommended treatments, check out my video here: • What Is Hypochondria?....
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Thank you for this video, I’m studying psychology and this has been helpful with my research paper.
Amazing explaination!
recently diagnosed with SSD through the VA. still leering how to deal with it and exactly what it is. I do want to thank you for this video and Goodluck with the channel!
Hi Sonny, Thank you for your positive feedback on this video. I hope you have been getting support for SSD and that you are doing well. If you found this video helpful you may be interested in a free online masterclass I'm running on Thursday this week. While it is not specific to SSD, it may provide some helpful information for you on your journey. No pressure at all but just want to make you aware of it. www.ashleywaknine.com/mind-and-emotions-webinar-registration-page/ Be well - Ashley
Its a label when drs cant figure out.
I hope you all enjoyed the video as I journey through the DSM-V and raise awareness for mental health. What questions or follow-up videos would you like to see on this topic?
Hi, Ashley. I have chronic gout, tinnitus with recurrent migraines, and osteoarthritis in my knees. I also have all the symptomns for SSD as given in DSM 5. But I am unsure. Since my pain is founded in diagnosed problems for which the management strategies are only marginally effective, do I have SSD or something else instead?
Let me restate that - is it likely that I have SSD or would another problem be more accurate?
Side stomach pain and bloating, nausea. I am always thinking about my health, my breathing, every little pain, am I going to be ok today? Everyday is a battle. Worry, fear are apart of my life! Ugh, i just want to free of symptoms !!! I have been this way most of my life! Brother and sister died very young of a deceased! They both suffered. Maybe this is the cause of my problems!
Thank you for help. Just question I fell weakness and my balance like stop on water only this. I did exercises to my neck because was tight now the balance batter but still fell weakness and I don't want to do sex because I thought if I did my power gonna go and when I waking I fell so tired and just wanna go home I did all test was good but only Vitman D 23L. I saw the Psychological they said maybe u have SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDER what you think? Can u help.
Hi we do you no if it's sad of fybromyalgia.i was diagnosed as fybro spectrum disorder.with a element of fnd.when I got diagnosed got heal pain in s morning constant throat pain now it's in my shoulders throat ok.i twisted my knee 10 months ago still stiff in morning to.are these symptoms all anxiety.
Hello Ashley can I please speak with you somewhere about this?
I’m a junior in high school and I’ve had psychological problems all my life. But in the 7th grade I had my first panic attack and the symptoms slowly started to form. I first just had minor dizziness and panic attacks. Then by freshman year I had balance and equilibrium problems where I felt I was floating or spinning or swaying etc, along with digestive problems and getting cold limbs. I saw neurologists and ENT and others and they cleared me. I started to get rare days where I’d become super sick. I had to stay home alone on Christmas 2018 due to how sick nauseous and dizzy I felt. Fast forward to junior year. I was diagnosed with ADHD anxiety and depression the summer before junior year and went on an ADHD med but couldn’t continue due to side affects and entering school. By junior year I made new friends and started to have fun until one day I had chills and severe dizziness in the middle of the night. I stayed sick and after 5 days home went to hospital, got a CT scan/blood test and was cleared. I went to school the next day. Symptoms weren’t much better but they subsided some days. On my 17th birthday I felt extremely bad and dizzy on a test and failed it of course, and the next day I started to feel really bad again. I’ve stayed home since Halloween and am now homeschooled as a junior but I may have to drop out because I can’t get work done. I’m now nearly bedridden and high functioning but extremely sick feeling. I have light/hearing sensitivity, nausea, severe dizziness imbalance/lightheaded ness, digestive problems, cold and weak limbs and body aches with my neck/back/ears. I also have pressure in the ears and blurry vision as well as I’m immobilized at times. I don’t know what to do as of right now and of course I lost the friends I made and am now in a state of both wanting to have a life and torture. I can still walk but it’s extremely hard and voices almost make me pass out. I’m not sure what happens next but if anyone has any effective treatment options I’m desperate. I’m not sure if resolving my psychological problems will actually make me feel better and even if so idk how to identify my psychological issues but I’m desperate as hell and need reassurance because I’m at the point where it’s extremely hard to even see doctors or go places at all. I hope someone resonated with this and know ur not alone.
Hey, while it hasnt been as extreme for me, like you explained in the end, I can really resonate with how it began for you. I also had slight dizziness and then panic attacks started and I developed some kind of anxiety disorder which has improved but still impacts me greatly today, after more than 3 years. Has it gotten any better for you, since the comment is more than 2 years old?
How are you now
Watching this the tension drops s bit it's fearing Ike have pain all my life
Now diagnosed Asperger's is this common connection Ashley
I had chest pain for two years terrible.
Now ive found out i have asperger's heds us rhis rhe lunk to this more any information?
Is somitization the same as somatic symptom disorder the anxiety causes the symptoms?
Yes. It changed names with the updated version of the DSM.
Does losing the fear of symptoms cure this
Is somatic anxiety somatic symptom disorder the same as told diffarant
Looking at the research and the evidence on this condition, it appears it’s a condition without an effective treatment. 90% of patients are still suffering with this condition. Five years later. Maybe you could do a video discussing why treatment is ineffective for this condition.
Is somatic symptom disorder the
Same as central sensitzation
All I know is I don’t wanna go on this way. 😢
Is it related to ocd
Tell us causes of somatic symptom disorder
Is it anxiety what causes the 24/7 muscle tension
I have the same issue
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Hi Ashley, my name is LJ. Thanks for the video. I've been living with SSD for over 11 years but was only diagnosed 4 years ago. I see both a psychiatrist and CBT and take 40mg of Viibryd yet I continue to suffer with the symptom. I also suffer from OCD but it's nothing compared to the SSD. I follow all the rules yet I've continued to deal with symptom after symptom, test after test. In the last 11 years I've seen over 40 doctors and have had over 300 appointments with multiple testing from MRI's to CT Scans to all other tests. I sometimes worry that the CT scans have eventually caught up to me with the harm they can create if used alot. I've had about 6 ct scans and also multiple xrays which is not good because of the radiation. I think that maybe I'll go back to those tests when I started feeling a physical symptom For the last year it's been chest pains. especially when I lay down even to the point where weezing in my chest goes from mild to really noticeable. I've seen multiple doctors for this yet nothing which makes me tend to believe that it possibly may be SSD. I'm trying to focus alot more on the psychological side of it and not the mental but I'm not making a dent. My CBT thinks I should embrace the chest pain and weezing cause that'll keep other symptoms from popping up causing even more doctor appointments. I'm trying to do just that but its easier said then done cause the discomfort in my chest can sometimes be overwhelming. I'm a young man (50) yet I retired about 5 years ago because of these issues and have not returned to work, lucky for me, I do receive a pension. I was just looking for any advice you might be able to give me that I could try to see if it somehow makes a difference. Again, I've tried everything form losing weight (165lbs) as we speak to yogs, meditation, CBD oil, have an emotional support animal, reading material about my problem....I mean, everything yet things stay the same.! I don't have depression and never felt like harming myself. I have tons of friends, supportive wife and a social life (that is when I'm feeling up to going out) so I am frustrated, tired and out of answers.This last symptom that I've had for close to a year really feels like it's something physical but I'm focusing on the SSD to no avail. I do have another appointment and test coming up but it's almost like the doctors are reaching all the way down the well for something. Any advice you can recommend would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Hi LJ. Thank you so much for reaching out and sharing your story on this page. It sounds like you’ve had quite a long, frustrating struggle with these symptoms. I can imagine you feel pretty fed up having spent so much time and made many life changes in effort to solve this. While I do wish there were some straight forward solution I could offer, every person is extremely individual and the team you have around you is in a much stronger position to help with your specific case than I am. I can only speak generally in this online format but will do my best to share a point of view that may be useful. First, it is always important that you rule out medical conditions and clarify with your therapist, psychiatrist and doctors that this is most likely SSD. Assuming that is the case, what SSD and OCD have in common is that they both have anxiety as a component. Anxiety and our relationship to it, has a direct impact on somatic symptoms because of the mind-body connection. A lot was learned about this during studies with chronic pain patients at the UMass stress reduction clinic. You may want to look into it if you haven’t; Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
Something you wrote that I hear very often relates to the notion of embracing/acceptance of pain. Again, I don’t know you to say that this is happening, but the human mind is very tricky and a common trap we can fall into (and I do this sometimes myself) is trying to embrace discomfort with the agenda of decreasing discomfort. When embracing discomfort becomes a strategy to decrease it then we aren’t truly embracing it we’re simply adding it to the list of control tactics we’ve already tried and may even notice the intensity of pain increase. (Going back to mind-body connection we can see why that happens). What we want to do in CBT is truly learn to relate to our inner world (thoughts, emotions, memories, sensations and urges) in a new way so that they have less impact and influence on our life. So if acceptance becomes an extension of the old agenda then it is not new. This is a HUGE topic and perhaps I should do some videos on it. There are different types of CBT models but the one that directly targets this issue is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). This is the CBT approach I personally use because this control agenda that I’m referring to is part of the human condition (meaning we all do this to some degree) and so I think it plays an important role in counseling.
Like you mention in your post, embracing pain, anxiety... is not easy! In fact, as we learn about in ACT, the human mind itself cannot be truly accepting of this stuff because its job is to eliminate problems. Acceptance is an entirely different stance that is therefore very counter-intuitive. An ACT self-help workbook that may be a useful starting point to learn more is: “Living Beyond Your Pain; Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Ease Chronic Pain” by Dr. Joanne Dahl and Tobias Lundgren. I sincerely hope these ideas offer some guidance. Thank you again for sharing so openly.
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I so appreciate your professional words of advice because I'm always open to new things being that it feels like I've tried everything! I will be purchasing ACT workbook and see what happens as far as possible change. I will be in touch and again, thank you for this video cause it's not a topic that's widely looked at and it's a terrible condition that people have to live with everyday. Thank you
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I have the problem as well we can discus it
Rock Pebbler Midori Hi Rock, I’m so sorry you’re going through this. I’ve been dealing with something similar for a month and I’ve been bedridden for weeks. At the start of all of this I went to see several specialists. I even saw 3 in about a week and they all told me that I didn’t have what I think I have. I went to another specialist last week and they tested me again and now I’m waiting for the results but once again he made it very clear to me that I don’t have anything and that he recommends I see a therapist. I also have OCD and have returned to my old therapist who said I’m not the first person she’s treated with this and that she agrees with my doctor that it’s mostly psychological. This has been very hard to accept and I’m fighting the urge right now to run to another specialist. It’s hard to accept that your mind is causing pain in specific areas but I think videos and comments like these helps us feel less alone so I wanted to say thanks for sharing your story. My therapist told me to think of the symptoms as another type of OCD symptom and that’s how we’re going to treat it. I hope the book Ashley recommended helps, I’m about to give it a try myself.
@@ashleywakninecounseling3750 thank you for the book suggestion - I just ordered it
surface, general content...unfortunately one need to dig thru tone of such stuff before finding actually helpful things here on YT...this will easily add 1 or 2Years to recovery....sorry for venom, i'm sure intentions were good