However, after many medical examinations without positive findings and rational explanations given by doctors without corresponding diseases, patients still can't dispel their concerns and continue to seek medical treatment everywhere. The onset is mostly slow, and there is no obvious inducement. After active treatment, symptoms can be alleviated, but patients with long course of disease have poor prognosis.
characteristic symptoms
Pay too much attention to physical changes
Patients show excessive concern about their own health and slight physical changes, always worry that they have one or more serious physical diseases, and make suspicious explanations that are inconsistent with actual health conditions. They often seek or avoid medical treatment repeatedly, but they don't believe the test results and the doctor's diagnosis, so they feel pain and anxiety.
If there is a confirmed physical disease, it shows that the individual's anxiety and preemption are obviously excessive, which is inconsistent with the severity of the disease.
Somatic symptoms
No physical symptoms or even if there are, the degree is very mild.
If there are signs or symptoms, they are usually normal physiological feelings (such as postural vertigo) and benign self-limiting sexual dysfunction (such as transient tinnitus)
), or physical discomfort (such as burping) that is not usually considered as a predictor of disease.