“The development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor” -DSM 5

Excessive worry (apprehensive expectation), that is difficult to control, about a number of events or activities, It might be associated with restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, muscle tension, irritability, sleep disturbances. -DSM 5.

Branch of psychiatry: “Consultation-liaison psychiatry, also known as psychosomatic medicine, is an exciting subspecialty of psychiatry that focuses on the care of patients with comorbid psychiatric and general medical conditions. Consultation-liaison psychiatry deals with the understanding and advancement of medical science, education, and the provision of healthcare for medically ill patients.” -APA

Also known as cultural humility. “The combination of a body of knowledge, a body of belief, and a body of behavior. It involves several elements that are often specific to ethnic, racial, religious, geographic, or social groups. This includes personal identification, language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions.” -NIH.

Treatment provided using psychopharmacological strategies, aiming to reduce biological symptoms related to mental health disorders, life-cycle stressors, and adjustment to changes in life.

“syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or development processes underlying mental functioning.”

“… the trained ability to discern how a host of issues defined clinically as symptoms, attitudes, or diseases (e.g., depression, hypertension, obesity, smoking, medication “non‐compliance,” trauma, psychosis) also represent the downstream implications of a number of upstream decisions about such matters as health care and food delivery systems, zoning laws, urban and rural infrastructures, medicalization, or even about the very definitions of illness and health.” -Jonathan M Metzl, Helena Hansen.