Stress seems to be a part of life today as one deals with marriage, work, children, and school, to name a few.  Psychological research is finding out more and more about the close relationship between psychological stress and physical ailments such as hypertension, migraine headaches, cardiovascular disease, etc. 
 

• Go to the OER Website: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/46663-abnormal-psychology/view
  • Read in Unit 7 – Somatic Symptom Disorders and Dissociative Disorders:
    • What is a Somatic Symptom Disorder
    • Somatic Symptom Disorder
    • Illness Anxiety Disorder
    • An Overview of Factitious Disorders
      
• Go to the OER Website: https://opentext.wsu.edu/abnormal-psych/front-matter/table-of-contents/
  • Read Module 8: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
    
• Consider physical illnesses as they are related to stress.
  
• Prepare to engage in discussion, summarizing three physical illnesses that seem directly related to stress.