Mental health problems mistaken for physical illness in children
Many children are admitted to general acute wards with mental health problems mistaken for physical disease. Somatic symptoms, such as abdominal pain, headaches, limb pain and tiredness, often mask underlying problems and result in the NHS spending money on investigations to eliminate wrongly diagnosed disease.Yes, you are misdiagnosing a lot of people- BUT, I really cannot say this enough-
It identified that somatic complaints are linked to children's upbringing and their home environments, including unstable home lives, a chaotic upbringing and parental over-protectiveness.The article concludes that somatic disorders can, to some extent, be predicted when nurses take into consideration issues such as poor family situations and parental influences, psychosocial stress, and poor emotional functioning.
Somatization Disorder Does Not Exist.
Just because you haven't found a biological cause, does not mean there isn't one.
You may want to look up a psychological concept called "Experimenter Bias".
It predicts that if you assume that "chaotic environments" cause "mental illnesses"- you will stop looking for physical causes for those symptoms.
Did you check those disadvantaged kids for food allergies? Or vitamin D deficiency? Did you treat their certain dental disease or dismiss it as inconsequential?
You're mistaking physical symptoms for an imaginary construct.
This is the opposite of medicine. Or science. STFU.
