Somatoform Disorders: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Psyche – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).

  • Anxiety disorders
  • Artificial disorder – feigning illness (Munchausen’s syndrome) to achieve a gain of illness.
  • Hypochondriacal disorder – Strong belief of suffering from a serious illness, although the affected person is objectively physically healthy.
  • Conversion disorder – Fixation on supposed neurological diseases.

In addition to these mental illnesses, physically justifiable illnesses must always be ruled out.