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What is a key difference between somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder?

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Somatic symptoms tend to be physical like for example a complaint of pain. Illness anxiety tends to have no physical, it’s an unrealistic fear that their is something wrong with them they also tend to see normal things that the body does as a sign of a future illness etc.
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