ahmo
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Yes. I remember being intrigued by the term psychosomatic from my school days. I don't know how it came to my attention, since I grew up in the household of a surgeon and nurse, who didn't put much store in things of the mind. Maybe I felt this was the label that applied to my belly aches. There was never a reason for these belly aches, which I lived with forever. Until 3 years ago I understood I have "atypical" celiac disease. Atypical because my symptoms weren't primarily gut. Because I was so accustomed to my belly aches, that they were nothing compared to my low back pain.I don't like speaking broadly about 'psychosomatic' illness, and things like that don't seem impossible to me... but I have come to realise that my reasons for thinking such problems did occur were really all based on anecdotes in medical papers, and that there isn't really any more compelling evidence than that.
Over the years I felt it applied to my lower back inflammation, which flared under stress. Really it wasn't until the past year that I understood the connection of adrenals and low back flares. You could still call this psychosomatic in that emotional or psychological stress whack my adrenals, which then lead to a flare. (no longer, pretty much in the past). But the leap from psychological stress impacting adrenals to it's all in your mind is clearly an artifact of the anecdotal psychobabble.