Diagnosis. Sal meets the criteria for multiple Axis I diagnoses. One of the first disorders presenting in Sal is unipolar depression. Symptoms of his depression have been present since the age of 10 and include increasingly reclusive behaviors. He has also been amotivated in several aspects of normal life, including finding appropriate housing, holding a job, and maintaining his physical appearance. In addition to depression, Sal also seems to meet the criteria for a diagnosis of somatization disorder, a somatoform disorder that results in physical complaints with psychosocial causes (Comer 2005). I will need to gather further information about the nature of Sal’s “medical conditions” to make a concrete diagnosis, but because Sal is young, has struggled with these particular ailments for seven years, and has never been offered a physiological cause for his symptoms, I am led to believe that he has somatization disorder.