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Symptoms and Sings - Differential Diagnosis of Somatization Disorder
• Conversion disorder: there is an alteration or loss of voluntary motor or sensory function with demonstrable physical cause and related to a psychological stress or a conflict. (NOTE: With multiple complaints, the diagnosis of conversion is not made.)
• Munchausen’s (factitious disorder) and malingering: the psychological basis of the complaints in somatization disorder is not conscious as in factitious disorder (Munchausen’s) and malingering, in which symptoms are produced intentionally.
• Pain disorder: distinguished from somatization disorder by the presence of other somatic complaints.
• Undifferentiated somatoform disorder: one or more physical complaints that cannot be explained by a medical condition are present for at least 6 months. (NOTE: Somatization is more severe and less common.)
• Conversion disorder: there is an alteration or loss of voluntary motor or sensory function with demonstrable physical cause and related to a psychological stress or a conflict. (NOTE: With multiple complaints, the diagnosis of conversion is not made.)
• Munchausen’s (factitious disorder) and malingering: the psychological basis of the complaints in somatization disorder is not conscious as in factitious disorder (Munchausen’s) and malingering, in which symptoms are produced intentionally.
• Pain disorder: distinguished from somatization disorder by the presence of other somatic complaints.
• Undifferentiated somatoform disorder: one or more physical complaints that cannot be explained by a medical condition are present for at least 6 months. (NOTE: Somatization is more severe and less common.)
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