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Examples of how psychological causes have been postulated for many medical conditions

chipmunk1

chipmunk1

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Dolphin said:
Perhaps others could add to this list.

Also if you think anything is incorrect perhaps you could mention it (i.e. note I'm not saying that the theory is correct, I'm just looking in case the theory was never suggested). One of my Facebook friends posted it as part of a private message (i.e. just to their friends) and said they had done some research to create the list.


Asthma - overbearing mothers

Autism - lack of maternal nuturing

Cancer - repressed anger

Diabetes - psychological and emotional stress

Epilepsy - mental illness

Fibromyalgia - childhood stress, unprocessed negative emotions

Food allergy - psychological issues

Gulf War Syndrome - psychological distress

Heart disease - type-A behavior

Hypertension - psychological stress

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) - neuroticism, introversion

Lupus - self-loathing

Lyme disease - hypochondria

Multiple sclerosis (MS) - hysterical paralysis

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) - hysteria

Rheumatoid arthritis - repressed anger, resentment, aggression

Stomach ulcers - psychological stress

Tuberculosis (TB) - tubercular personality

Ulcerative colitis - interdependent relationships


"We believe that emotional and mental states play a significant role both in “susceptibility” to disease, including cancer, and in “recovery” from all disease. We believe that cancer is often an indication of problems elsewhere in an individual's life, probably aggravated or compounded by a series of stresses six to eighteen months prior to the onset of cancer."

-O. Carl Simonton M.D., 1992
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it's either stress or repressed emotions. Stress as a factor in disease was heavily promoted by the tobacco industry probably to cover up the fact that smoking causes cancer and heart disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3036703/

repressed emotions is based on freudian ideas.

So it's either tobacco science or psychoanalysis scam.
 
Cheshire

Cheshire

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Endometriosis apparently was thought to have (and some certainly still think it's true) "psychosomatic aspects":

Psychosomatic aspects of endometriosis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14505264
A study of the psychosomatic aspects of endometriosis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1287693
Psychosomatic aspects of endometriosis
http://www.j-endometriosis.com/article/psychosomatic-aspects-of-endometriosis-je-11-000-bitzer




And patients suffering from vaginal pain, painful periods are often dismissed and said they are some kind of sissies.
 
trishrhymes

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For ME there are of course still lots of 'explanations' being published
false illness beliefs, fear avoidance, past trauma, childhood abuse, overprotective mothers, symptom focusing, malingering, perfectionism etc etc.
 
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