Abstract:Every individual experiences subjective somatic symptoms that might or might not be explained by a known medical condition. Some of these symptoms disappear quickly, whereas others persist. This chapter focuses mostly on symptoms that cannot be easily understood from a solely biomedical perspective, the so-called functional somatic symptoms (FSS). The symptoms referred to as FSS are comprised of varying combinations of pain in di erent parts of the body, functional disturbances attributed to organs like cardio… Show more
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