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They may become angry with their doctors who can’t find the cause for their symptoms.
Treatment is often difficult, as people with somatisation disorders commonly do not accept that their symptoms are due to mental factors. Like everyone else, another difficulty is that people with somatisation disorder, will develop physical diseases at some point. We as long as we will like, I’d say if you provide us your information and are in need of support.
Remember, visit How Mental Illness Feels and tell us -in your personal words -how you feel when you are having symptoms. You can also browse what others have submitted. Find it difficult to start addressing their concerns as long as they don’t really know what’s going on or how to describe what’s happening in their minds, loads of people struggle with mental health problems. It is other times it feels frustrating when others tell us how we should feel or that what we’re feeling is wrong or bad. I know that the exact number of people affected is difficult to determine, as many cases are probably not diagnosed.
Somatisation disorder is thought to be quite rare, perhaps affecting about 1 in 1000 people. Somatoform disorders can affect anyone lots of people who are thought to have a somatoform disorder also have other mental health problems like depression, anxiety or substance abuse.