Similarly, in the case of somatic type delusional disorder, patients experience a strong conviction that they are suffering from invisible physical disfigurements and ailments. Somatic type delusional disorder is when an individual believes they have a physical deformity like abnormally sized body parts, personal ugliness or a serious medical condition (Hawro, Kepska, Krupinska-Kun & Zalewska, 2010). Somatic type delusional disorder is a psychotic variant of body dysmorphic disorder which means that those diagnosed with this disorder suffer from hypochondriacal symptoms in correlation with reality impairment (Issa, 2010). Those suffering from somatic delusions seek help from cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists more often than psychologists
