The study suggests that bodily distress disorder as defined here may unite many of the functional somatic syndromes and some somatoform disorder diagnoses. Bodily distress may be triggered by stress rather than being distinct diseases of noncerebral pathology.

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Mentally disordered medical inpatients use health care more heavily than patients without, also after adjustment for medical disease severity. Use is closely associated to the Whiteley-7 and the SCL-8D.

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