Bodily distress disorder
{Bodily Distress Disorder or BDD is a mental health disorder, involving psychological distress resulting from physical symptoms and excessive attention being focused on the physical symptoms by the patient.[1]
Bodily Distress Disorder has been is a new diagnosis in the World Health Organization's ICD-11 classification manual, and while based on the concept of Bodily Distress Syndrome (BDS) proposed by Fink et al. (2007),[2] there are significant differences.[1]
Evidence[edit | edit source]
Bodily Distress Disorder and ME/CFS[edit | edit source]
The World Health Organization's ICD-11 manual states that the following disorders are excluded from the diagnosis of bodily distress disorder:
- Tourette syndrome (8A05.00)
- Hair pulling disorder (6B25.0)
- Dissociative disorders (6B60-6B6Z)
- hair-plucking (6B25.0)
- Hypochondriasis (6B23)
- Body dysmorphic disorder (6B21)
- Excoriation disorder (6B25.1)
- Gender incongruence (HA60-HA6Z)
- Sexual dysfunctions (HA00-HA0Z)
- Tic disorders (8A05)
- Sexual pain-penetration disorder (HA20)
- Postviral fatigue syndrome (8E49)
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (8E49)
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis (8E49)[1]
Controversy[edit | edit source]
There has been concern from researchers, clinicians, patients with ME/CFS, chronic pain patients and others that a medical condition with a biological cause may be diagnosed with Bodily Distress Disorder instead of a physical illness, which could result in the denial of medical tests to establish the correct diagnosis, the denial of necessary medical care,[2][3] and for severely ill patients with ME/CFS possibly forced psychiatric treatment or hospitalization, such as that experienced by Karina Hansen and Sophia Mirza.[citation needed]
Notable studies and publications[edit | edit source]
- 2017, Contesting the psychiatric framing of ME/CFS[4] (Full text)
- 2019, Bodily Distress Syndrome: Concerns About Scientific Credibility in Research and Implementation[3] (Full text)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Medically unexplained symptoms
- Per Fink
- Sophia Mirza
- Ethical issues
- Stigma and discrimination
- Medically unexplained symptoms
- Medical neglect and abuse
Learn more[edit | edit source]
- 6C20 Bodily distress disorder - ICD-11 online version
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 World Health Organization (2022), 6C20 Bodily distress disorder | Disorders of bodily distress or bodily experience | ICD-11 - Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, retrieved September 21, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/7/4/114/htm
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 O'Leary, D. (June 30, 2018). "Bodily distress syndrome: Concerns about scientific credibility in research and implementation". Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry. 18 (2): 67–77t. doi:10.4024/07LE18A.jbpc.18.02.
- ↑ Spandler, Helen; Allen, Meg (August 16, 2017). "Contesting the psychiatric framing of ME/CFS" (PDF). Social Theory & Health. 16 (2): 127–141. doi:10.1057/s41285-017-0047-0. ISSN 1477-8211.
