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Re:Havana Syndrome: Officials stricken with illness on White... by adsteel_ on Monday February 21, 2022 @11:44PM (#30424074)
Somatic Symptom Disorder, sometimes called Psychosomatic Disorder, is defined in the DSM V and does not mean the symptoms are "all in your head". It refers to patients with a compulsive-to-the-point-of-self-damaging focus on their condition, even if that condition is a diagnosed medical condition.

In other words, it's not a blank check to ignore these people.

More on SSD here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704/table/ch3.t31 and here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532253

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Re:Havana Syndrome: Officials stricken with illness on White... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @12:44AM (#30424416)
To emphasize this, even if somatic symptoms are rooted in mental/emotional state, they’re still real and experienced as real.
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