Somatic symptom disorder
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Soma means 'body', thus somatoform disorders pertain to the body.
Hypochondria is a well known somatoform disorder, in which the patient worries excessively about his or her health. Other somatoform disorders include paralysis, blindness and physical pain that results from psychological rather than physical factors.
Somatoform disorders make up one of the major diagnostic categories in the DSM-IV.