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Listing 12.07

Somatic symptom and related disorders

This listing covers disorders where distressing physical symptoms or health worries cannot be fully explained by a medical condition — such as somatic symptom disorder, illness anxiety disorder, and conversion disorder.

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SSA requires medical documentation of the symptom pattern (paragraph A) AND serious limits in daily mental functioning (paragraph B). Both A and B are required.

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What Listing 12.07 asks for

What SSA looks for — see the 2 items

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    • Your medical records must document at least one of: movement or sensory problems (like weakness or blindness) that medical testing cannot explain
    • Distressing physical symptoms with excessive worry or behavior around them
    • Intense preoccupation with having a serious illness despite little or no symptoms. Only one is needed.
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    Your medical records must document at least one of: movement or sensory problems (like weakness or blindness) that medical testing cannot explain; distressing physical symptoms with excessive worry or behavior around them; or intense preoccupation with having a serious illness despite little or no symptoms. Only one is needed.

    (Listing 12.07, criterion A)

    • Your condition must also cause an 'extreme' limit in one, or a 'marked' (serious) limit in two, of these areas: understanding and using information, getting along with others, staying focused and keeping pace, or managing yourself.
    • Both A and B are required.
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    Your condition must also cause an 'extreme' limit in one, or a 'marked' (serious) limit in two, of these areas: understanding and using information, getting along with others, staying focused and keeping pace, or managing yourself. Both A and B are required.

    (Listing 12.07, criterion B)

How long it must last:

No listing-specific duration language; the general requirement applies — the impairment must have lasted or be expected to last at least 12 continuous months.