psychosomatic conditions
Mentally induced illnesses
Psychosomatic conditions are physical symptoms or illnesses caused or worsened by mental factors like stress, anxiety, or emotional distress.
The body manifests what the mind struggles to process: Her headaches were psychosomatic, appearing whenever work pressure mounted.
The term doesn't imply the symptoms aren't real—the pain, fatigue, or digestive problems are genuine, even when no underlying physical cause can be found.
Medicine increasingly recognizes how thoroughly mind and body influence each other.
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- stress responseBody's reaction to threat
- fight or flightThreat-triggered physiological state
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- panic attackSudden intense fear episode
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Pathogen-caused transmissible conditions
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