A somatic symptom disorder, formerly known as a somatoform disorder, is any mental disorder that manifests as physical symptoms that suggest illness or injury, but cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition or by the direct effect of a substance, and are not attributable to another mental disorder (e.g., panic disorder). Somatic symptom disorders, as a group, are included in a number of diagnostic schemes of mental illness, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (Before DSM-5 this disorder was split into somatization disorder and undifferentiated somatoform disorder.) In people who have been diagnosed with a somatic symptom disorder, medical test results are either normal or do not explain the persons symptoms (medically unexplained physical symptoms), and history and physical examination do not indicate the presence of a known medical condition that could cause them, though the DSM-5 cautions that this alone is not sufficient for diagnosis. The patient must also be excessively worried about their symptoms, and this worry must be judged to be out of proportion to the severity of the physical complaints themselves. A diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder requires that the subject have recurring somatic complaints for at least six months.Symptoms are sometimes similar to those of other illnesses and may last for years. Usually, the symptoms begin appearing during adolescence, and patients are diagnosed before the age of 30 years. Symptoms may occur across cultures and gender. Other common symptoms include anxiety and depression.
Side or Sides may refer to:

Geometry
Edge (geometry) of a polygon (two-dimensional shape)
Face (geometry) of a polyhedron (three-dimensional shape)

Places
Side (Ainis), a town of Ainis, ancient Thessaly, Greece
Side (Caria), a town of ancient Caria, Anatolia
Side (Laconia), a town of ancient Laconia, Greece
Side (Pontus), a town of ancient Pontus, Anatolia
Side, Turkey, a city in Turkey
Side, Iran, a village in Iran
Side, Gloucestershire, or Syde, a village in England

Music
Side (recording), the A-side or B-side of a record
The Side, a Scottish rock band
Sides (album), a 1979 album by Anthony Phillips
Sides, a 2020 album by Emily King
"Side" (song), a 2001 song by Travis
"Sides", a song by Flobots from the album The Circle in the Square, 2012
"Sides", a song by Allday from the album Speeding, 2017

Teams
Side (cue sports technique)
Side, a team, in particular:
Sports team

Other uses
Side (mythology), one of three mythological figures
Side, a Morris dance team
Sideboard (cards), known as a "side" in some collectible card games
Sides (surname), a surname
Side dish, a food item accompanying a main course
School of Isolated and Distance Education, a public school in Perth, Western Australia
Secretaría de Inteligencia, the premier intelligence agency of the Argentine Republic
Social identity model of deindividuation effects, in social psychology
Side (gay sex), a term describes gay men who are not interested in anal sex

See also
All pages with titles beginning with Side 
All pages with titles containing side
Cide (disambiguation)
Relative direction, left and right
Sidle (disambiguation)