#somatic disorder

[chronic-confessions]

Confession #3,107

So I’m seeing a new doctor for the second time today and i kinda like them. Like when I told them about the years of agony & all the crap ive had to take from the medical system he totally got it. And like instead of belittling me he started talking about taking some tests, and talking about how he kinda understood how shitty it is to be in this much pain when I’m still kinda young. Like I’ve had constant headaches since I was 8, got chronic pain at 14/15 and had to move home and drop out of school at 16 and I’ve basically been at home ever since. And my current GP is saying I’m either faking it or I have somatic disorder… even thinking about it pisses me off. The only reason thats even on the table is cause a nurse screwed up when I was getting checked for CFS and no one has been willing to even consider a mistake was made back then, so a shrink said it might be and then basically went “we dont treat long term, and i wont set a diagnosis, bye bye” And they dont even know what somatic disorder is. But hopefully this new doctor will find something and I can finally get help, or at least some pain meds as right now my only option is ibuprofen which stopped working like 6/5 years ago…

My point was new doctor and i might actually get some help, yaaay

[sk196]

Somatic symptoms Disorder:   Understanding  The Mind and Body Speak Together For Better Health - Mefits

Somatic symptoms Disorder:   Understanding  The Mind and Body Speak Together For Better Health - Mefits

https://mefits.in/somatic-symptoms-disorder-causes-symptoms-treatment

[ralphspina-blog1]

this is a long rant with some things about my physical and mental health and how they often cross over and HOW MUCH I HATE BACKSLIDING RAAAH

okay so this is just some of the dealio on my mental/physical health for background on the colossal fuck up i am today.

you know how sometimes you get really depressed and it feels like a physical illness, where you have aches and malaise and exhaustion and your head can almost feel fever cloudy? and then you know how you can get so anxious you feel like you will, or do, throw up?

and then there’s things called somatic disorders, where you present with all the physical signs of something very serious for a super long time (or conversion disorder if they’re neurological) and you’re both clearly not malingering and clearly not sick with the thing you seem to have.

welp, i’m somewhere in the middle. i don’t get sick near long enough for any kind of psychological diagnosis, but i’m also not sick with any kind of germ, bug, infection, nothing legit. still, a psychiatrist was able to determine a clear mind-emotion-body link to when i’d “come down” with these things while i was in inpatient care: when something very upsetting happened, or something hugely stressful was coming up, or even just when my anxiety or depression started to dominate for no clear reason and i wasn’t showing it outwardly or discussing it, i’d get sick without fail. so basically, jamming it down to try and stomp through instead of processing and coming to a better place was the cause. that was about 5 years ago, and before that i was diagnosed with all manner of chronic disorders (fatigue, ibs, several pain ones, you name it) or considered a hypochondriac, so it’s nice to have an answer. i’ve done a shitload of therapy for it and am doing a lot better.

but when i find out about the grief support group in two days, promptly sleep through the rest of that day, feel incredibly sick the next day, and then wake up feeling like death the morning of the group? I SHOULD HAVE NIPPED THAT IN THE BUD WAY EARLIER. i am so angry at myself rn, i’m better than this.

but oh well, there’ll be another session next week. i just want to scream because this hasn’t gotten me so badly since the summer of 2015. goddamnit.

[relatable-psychosis]

i know bdd is a somatic disorder, but is it a delusional disorder as well? i mean, technically you ARE convinced of a thing despite overwhelming evidence of the contrary. (though, of course bdd probably exists on a sliding scale of severity as well, but lets assume we're talking about a more debilitating case)

Hey!

Yes it canbe considered a disorder with delusions. Becuase of the way BBD is treated and the lack of other psychotic symptoms its not considered a psychotic disorder by most.

It would be like severe OCD where it borders on psychosis becuase of delusional aspects but it is not cataogrized as psychotic in most cases

Hop that makes sense

-admin a

[mental-health-advice]

I don't feel right at all my head is all fuzzy and something just feels wrong but I'm worried there isn't anything wrong at all and I'm just making it up and none of it what I feel is actually valid and I'm just overreacting to everything

Hey darling,

I can assure you that you don’t overreact to everything. If you are feeling this way then you are feeling it. Whether it’s a somatic disorder or not, it’s how you feel. Your feelings are valid. The only time you could say your feelings aren’t valid is if you have a factitious disorder. And even then your feelings are still valid, something is still wrong, even if it’s not what you are feigning. Which there is nothing wrong with having a problem with that. It’s a real issue, there’s a reason that there’s a name for it.

Have you tried speaking with your doctor about the way you are feeling? Feeling “fuzzy” can mean a number of things, such as physical issues like migraines, and mental issues like depression. Let your doctor know you feel your issues aren’t valid, that can be a symptom in what you have / are dealing with. If you are on medication it could mean that you are on too high of a dosage, or not the right combination. Sometimes while individual medication can work well the mix of them can cause adverse effects such as a “fuzzy” feeling.

Feeling fuzzy, or having an out of body experience, can also signify that you are having a panic attack. Have you checked out our Calming Anxiety link? Try a breathing technique called Square Breathing. You breathe in for four seconds, hold for 4 seconds, breathe out for 4 seconds, and hold again for 4 seconds. Repeat this until your heart beat calms to a more “normal” speed.

~Mads