The Need to Distinguish between Bodily Distress Disorder and Somatic Symptom Disorder

Eede, Filip Van Den; Feltz-Cornelis, Christina M. van der

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“…Previous research has shown that the more people believe their emotions are controllable and useful (BECU), the less they generally report psychological distress (Becerra et al, 2020; Biel et al, 2023; Ford & Gross, 2019). Psychological distress, in turn, has been given a prominent role in psychosomatic research, for example, in the form of psychological symptom burden (Fava et al, 2017; Kellner, 1994; Porcelli & Guidi, 2015; Van der Feltz‐Cornelis & Van Dyck, 1997), especially in the DSM‐5‐TR diagnosis of Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD; American Psychiatric Association, 2022; see also: Desai & Chaturvedi, 2016; Dimsdale & Levenson, 2013; Henningsen et al, 2018; Huang & Liao, 2018; Van den Eede & Van der Feltz‐Cornelis, 2018). Although distress has been identified to be the most frequently reported syndrome in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy as well as to impact and attenuate psychosomatic symptoms (Guidi et al, 2021), BECU has not yet systematically been studied in the context of somatic symptoms and somatoform disorders (Okur Güney et al, 2019, p. 16).…”

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Beliefs about emotions predict psychological stress related to somatic symptoms

Reininger,

Biel,

Hennig

et al. 2023

British J Clinic Psychol

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BackgroundPrevious research has shown that the more people believe their emotions are controllable and useful (BECU), the less they generally report psychological distress. Psychological distress, in turn, impacts health outcomes, and is among the most frequently reported complaints in psychotherapeutic and psychosomatic practice.ObjectiveWe aimed to examine how BECU predicts psychological distress related to somatic symptoms in a prospective sample from the general population and to replicate this association in two cross‐sectional samples of psychosomatic patients.MethodsWe applied a panel design with an interval of 2 weeks between T1 and T2 in general‐population panel‐participants (N = 310), assessing BECU and psychological distress related to somatic symptoms via validated self‐report measures. Moreover, we cross‐sectionally replicated the relationship between BECU and psychological distress in a clinical sample of psychosomatic outpatients diagnosed with somatoform disorders (n = 101) or without somatoform disorders (n = 628).ResultsBECU predicted over and above the lagged criterion panel‐participants' psychological distress related to somatic symptoms, β = −.18, p < .001. BECU was also cross‐sectionally related to psychological distress in our clinical replication‐sample of psychosomatic outpatients diagnosed with somatoform disorders, rS(87) = −.33, p = .002 and in those without, rS(557) = ‐.21, p < .001.ConclusionsBECU as a malleable way of thinking about emotions predicted psychological distress related to somatic symptoms in general‐population panel‐participants and correlated with the same in two clinical replication samples. BECU thus becomes a promising treatment target in psychotherapeutic approaches.

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