F68: Other disorders of adult personality and behaviour

F68.0: Elaboration of physical symptoms for psychological reasons

You have physical symptoms. These problems are lasting longer than expected. You may also be reporting the problems to be more severe than they actually are. There are psychological reasons for this.

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