Posts Tagged ‘self-care skills’

Self-Care Skills

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Are you the kind of person who cares for everyone but yourself?  In #4 of my series of posts about the DSM-5, I proposed a new definition for Complex Somatic Symptom Disorder.  Part B of the definition included the concept that symptoms improve in response to treatment of ongoing social or psychological stresses including insufficient self-care skills.  In this post I want to elaborate on the latter.

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