Caroline Crampton

Yes. Thank you, Terry. I suppose what I generally mean by that, though, is that I'm not currently investigating myself for any serious illnesses.

Yes. Thank you, Terry. I suppose what I generally mean by that, though, is that I'm not currently investigating myself for any serious illnesses.

Yes. Thank you, Terry. I suppose what I generally mean by that, though, is that I'm not currently investigating myself for any serious illnesses.

So the definition that I like and that I use comes from the Oxford English Dictionary, and it runs, a mental condition characterized by the persistent and unwarranted belief or fear that one has a serious illness. I think that has all of the different components in.

So the definition that I like and that I use comes from the Oxford English Dictionary, and it runs, a mental condition characterized by the persistent and unwarranted belief or fear that one has a serious illness. I think that has all of the different components in.

So the definition that I like and that I use comes from the Oxford English Dictionary, and it runs, a mental condition characterized by the persistent and unwarranted belief or fear that one has a serious illness. I think that has all of the different components in.

The persistent and unwarranted has really been my experience of it. It continues for a long time. And unwarranted suggests it's a fear that can't be substantiated by any medical tests you might do.

The persistent and unwarranted has really been my experience of it. It continues for a long time. And unwarranted suggests it's a fear that can't be substantiated by any medical tests you might do.

The persistent and unwarranted has really been my experience of it. It continues for a long time. And unwarranted suggests it's a fear that can't be substantiated by any medical tests you might do.

Yes, so illness anxiety disorder is pretty much as it sounds. It's the stuff going on in your head. It's an excessive hypervigilance and anxiety around potential health problems. Somatic symptom disorder...

Yes, so illness anxiety disorder is pretty much as it sounds. It's the stuff going on in your head. It's an excessive hypervigilance and anxiety around potential health problems. Somatic symptom disorder...

Yes, so illness anxiety disorder is pretty much as it sounds. It's the stuff going on in your head. It's an excessive hypervigilance and anxiety around potential health problems. Somatic symptom disorder...

has some of that in it but then adds this extra thing of phantom symptoms somatic is a quite an archaic word meaning just meaning body or bodily but it's used in medicine today to mean things people can feel in their bodies that then can't be picked up on tests so that's what they mean when they say somatic symptom disorder might be someone who presents convinced that they've got a terrible wound in their leg but actually no wound can be detected that would be a somatic symptom

has some of that in it but then adds this extra thing of phantom symptoms somatic is a quite an archaic word meaning just meaning body or bodily but it's used in medicine today to mean things people can feel in their bodies that then can't be picked up on tests so that's what they mean when they say somatic symptom disorder might be someone who presents convinced that they've got a terrible wound in their leg but actually no wound can be detected that would be a somatic symptom

has some of that in it but then adds this extra thing of phantom symptoms somatic is a quite an archaic word meaning just meaning body or bodily but it's used in medicine today to mean things people can feel in their bodies that then can't be picked up on tests so that's what they mean when they say somatic symptom disorder might be someone who presents convinced that they've got a terrible wound in their leg but actually no wound can be detected that would be a somatic symptom

That has been my experience. I don't know that I or probably many people can be so easily classified as one or the other. A lot of the time, I think I would fall under illness, anxiety disorder. But occasionally, I do have...

That has been my experience. I don't know that I or probably many people can be so easily classified as one or the other. A lot of the time, I think I would fall under illness, anxiety disorder. But occasionally, I do have...

That has been my experience. I don't know that I or probably many people can be so easily classified as one or the other. A lot of the time, I think I would fall under illness, anxiety disorder. But occasionally, I do have...

pins and needles or pains that can't be readily explained or identified and that would put me under the other one so I don't know whether splitting them has necessarily helped the understanding or enhanced the treatment and actually that has been the sort of academic consensus around that that way of splitting them too.

pins and needles or pains that can't be readily explained or identified and that would put me under the other one so I don't know whether splitting them has necessarily helped the understanding or enhanced the treatment and actually that has been the sort of academic consensus around that that way of splitting them too.