Family Physician Survey In Mainz: Patients With Depression Frequently Suffer From Medically Unexplained Pain
Pain symptoms that cannot be attributed, or at least not fully attributed, to an organic origin are more frequently and more severely experienced by patients with depression than by those without. “It is the case that women are much more frequently affected by depression and also by so-called somatoform pain disorder than men,” explains Dirk Frieser, psychologist at the Institute of Psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
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