What is the difference between a conversion disorder and hypochondriasis?

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Somatic Symptom Disorders

Somatic symptom disorders (formerly called somatoform disorders) is a classification of psychiatric disorders in which a person consistently experiences one or more significant physical symptoms (e.g., headaches, breathlessness) across a period of time (i.e., at least six months). What makes it a psychiatric disorder is that there may or may not be a medically grounded root cause for these physical symptoms. Even if there is a medical explanation, the level of pain experienced is usually disproportional to the medical condition and these physical symptoms are often accompanied by excessive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors surrounding the physical symptoms wherein it impedes the individual's daily functioning.

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