Mr. Able is diagnosed with illness anxiety disorder, while Mr. Baker is diagnosed with somatic symptom disorder. How will their symptoms be different

c. Mr. Able will fear he has an undetected fatal illness; Mr. Baker will have many vague physical complaints.

Explanation:

Somatic symptom disorder in most cases is a disorder that is involving extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident.

People who have somatic disorder are not always concerned whether the physical symptom has a medical cause or not, what majorly happens to them is that the psychological factors compound the severity and impairment associated with the physical symptoms.

Illness Anxiety Disorder is a type of disorder which involves severe anxiety over the belief of one having a disease process without any evident physical cause.

The major difference between the two ( somatic disorder and illness anxiety disorder) is that If one or more physical symptoms are severe and associated with anxiety, then the diagnosis is somatic symptom disorder; in illness anxiety disorder the concern is majorly with the idea of being sick instead of the physical symptom itself.