Disaster somatization reaction

Symptoms secondary to nerve agent exposure may be especially difficult to differentiate from stress-associated somatic symptoms. Disaster somatization reaction (DSD), an alternative nosological term to mass hysteria, psychogenic illness, worried well, vicarious victims and contagious fear, classifies the response in patients who interpret their anxiety symptoms as due to direct exposure or infection, or who develop symptoms similar to those identified with exposure or infection (25). 

Disaster somatization reaction Severe exposure Mud exposure Atropine antidote... 

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