The Main Clinical Features and Types of Somatized Depression

Abstract

Objective. Somatic depression consisted of the development of appropriate practical recommendations, new treatment methods that consistently present the clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of depression. Materials and research methods. The study was conducted at the Mental Health Center of the Ministry of Health on 2015-2019 years, for 103 patients with somatic depression. The clinical and psychopathological method was mainly used to detect somatized depression. Results. Conclusion Masked depression is present in 72.8% of pains (sore throat) and various disorders in different parts of the body. In these cases, 53.4% suffer from discomfort and functional disturbances in the gastrointestinal tract. Conclusion. Daily change of state, worse in the evening and early morning, relief at noon; periodic, wave-like and spontaneous somatic and mental disorders; seasonality of somatic and mental disorders, most often in the autumn-spring period; ineffective somatic treatment and the positive effect of antidepressant therapy.