The following symptoms and complaints may indicate somatoform disorder:
- Repeated presentation to the physician because of a wide variety of physical symptoms, but these symptoms are not physically justifiable
- The affected person is convinced of a physical cause of the symptomatology, however
- This leads to distrust of the doctor and thus often to increased changes of doctors (so-called “doctor-shopping”)
The most common somatoform manifestations are:
- Pain, not localized
- Disturbances of organ functions, vegetative symptomatology (cardiac complaints, digestive disorders).
- Fatigue / exhaustion
