While not an official condition, this wave of depressive-like symptoms can be overwhelming. Therapists share the red flags ...

Sexual trauma affects the body in many ways, from pain and fatigue to anxiety. Healing requires patience, trauma-informed ...

Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is a mental disorder in which a person has excessive thoughts and behaviors about physical symptoms—such as pain or fatigue—which may or may not have a medical ...

In a recent study published in the JAMA Network Open, a group of researchers investigated the prevalence and severity of somatic symptoms among children and adolescents who have experienced ...

A 33-year-old woman hears brutal and frightening voices daily but continues her college studies. A middle-aged man, who served in the Navy and has since struggled with substance ...

Alexithymia makes it challenging to understand that physical symptoms can sometimes be the somatic equivalent of underlying ...

Nevertheless we think that our findings give important indications to consider a particular array of somatic symptoms as premonitory signs of T2DM within a long time window before clinical ...

New research found that taking a placebo pill, knowing that it contains no active ingredients, reduced the intensity of ...

The findings were published yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.

Could two pieces of a stone mosaic ever be identical? Of course, the answer is no--and each stone’s variation subtly contributes value to the finished work. Why should your cells be any ...