The source of the stress may be anything that has the ability to threaten one's bio-psycho-social homeostasis (e.g. work load, conflicts, life events, traumatic experiences, psychosocial difficulties, grief, somatic disease, or psychiatric disorder).
As a result, several questionnaires measuring grief examine somatic reactions as an independent dimension of grief [ 2, 3].
Measures of somatic, depressive, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and grief complaints, subjective well-being, and utilization of health care services during the previous three months were used.
So-called "normal" grief is marked by recurring floods of "somatic distress" lasting twenty minutes to an hour, comprising symptoms of breathlessness, weakness, and "tension or mental pain," in Lindemann's words.
In patients who had high Doloplus-2 scores and low expert scores, clinical examinations revealed that the patients' discomfort seemed frequently related to grief, depression, anxiety and/or agitation rather than to somatic pain.
In conclusion, our research draws attention to the need to recognize anxiety and depression looming in the background of somatic disorders and provides useful data for setting up the diagnostic criteria of complicated grief.
It's not merely a somatic reflex.
For example, the fifth edition of the book, the first for two decades, will classify manifestations of grief, temper tantrums and worrying about physical ill-health as the mental illnesses of major depressive disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder and somatic symptom disorder, respectively.
