psychosomatic disorders
Stress-induced physical symptoms
Psychosomatic disorders are physical symptoms or illnesses caused or worsened by mental factors rather than purely biological ones.
Stress, anxiety, or emotional distress can produce real bodily effects—headaches, digestive problems, chronic pain—without an identifiable physical cause.
The term acknowledges that mind and body aren't separate systems: Doctors suspected her stomach problems were psychosomatic.
The adjective psychosomatic describes this mind-body connection more broadly.
- chronic painEnduring physical suffering
- tension headachePain from muscle tightness
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- headachesPains in the skull
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
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Conditions caused by mutations
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