As a psychiatrist, I have seen patients who make their doctors feel helpless. They complain of a series of nonspecific symptoms such as pervasive pain, headaches, dizziness and vertigo, fatigue, digestive disturbances, elimination problems (urinary and bowel function), and the like.
Doctors often end up telling their patients with these chronic complaints that they can’t do anything more for them and suggest that they see a psychiatrist for hypochondria.
