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Psychosomatic Illness
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Also known as: psychosomatosis · psychologically caused illness · psychosomatic disorder · psychogenic disease · body-soul illness · psychosomatic suffering · psychophysical illness · psychosomatic condition · psychosomatic complaints · somatoform disorder
Your Body Is Speaking
"It's just psychosomatic." Almost everyone who has heard this sentence knows how it's meant. Not as an explanation, but as a dismissal — not as a pointer to a deeper level, but as a verdict: your symptoms are imaginary, not real. Not genuine suffering — just a whim of your nerves.
Perhaps you've heard this sentence yourself. After months of headaches no one could explain. After a persistent pressure in your stomach that showed up on no scan. After an exhaustion no blood test reveals. And then, at some point, the finding: everything is fine. Probably psychosomatic. The room you've just entered has two doors. Through one you leave relieved — nothing serious. Through the other you leave smaller than you arrived — apparently nothing that counts.
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