I shrug … for fear of being branded emotional, hysterical, psychosomatic.
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Was it some kind of psychosomatic response to my looming thesis?
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It boosts immunity and is a boon to sufferers of psychosomatic pains.
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Once again, emotional and psychosomatic pain was universal immediately after the breakup.
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Some of them were skeptical and wondered if the symptoms were psychosomatic.
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" Then he said he thought we were suffering from a "psychosomatic couples thing.
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Even he acknowledges that novelty and psychosomatic benefits may contribute to his convalescence.
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It's revealed that Eddie's asthma is psychosomatic, inflicted on him by his hysterical mother.
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We see this kind of psychosomatic symptom from time to time: mutism, blindness, paralysis.
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The fears surrounding MSG were just a "psychosomatic myth," Chang said in a tweet.
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To make matters worse, it wasn't long ago that many doctors thought fibromyalgia was psychosomatic.
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We have to attend to our bodies, to care for our fitness and psychosomatic health.
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He knows that even if Chuck's symptoms are psychosomatic, they are authentic, not a show.
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Still, doctors continued to note a high incidence of apparently psychosomatic symptoms among allergic patients.
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Burnout coupled with stress and depression, there's psychosomatic effects where your body isn't acting normally.
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Some feel their palms get sweaty and even their body temperature rises, producing a psychosomatic response.
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Todd Haynes's deeply troubling drama of psychosomatic distress lays bare the spiritual emptiness of contemporary life.
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The man's mental state, especially his psychosomatic illness, was a puzzle that even he couldn't grasp.
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Chuck didn't know the battery was there, so he didn't manifest any of his psychosomatic symptoms.
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A fact we already knew: that his aversion to all things electromagnetic is psychosomatic, not physical.
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Instead, he argued the pain was actually the result of a psychosomatic process and emotional factors.
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Or rather, he proves the first part, by proving that Chuck's electromagnetic hypersensitivity is psychosomatic in nature.
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People are so trained, and I really think in a lot of cases there's a psychosomatic effect.
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Women are also more likely to be told their pain is "psychosomatic," or influenced by emotional distress.
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He is grappling with the reality that the illness that turned him into a recluse is psychosomatic.
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But a set of studies, including one published today in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, present some contradictory findings.
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Disaster psychiatrists call this phenomenon "somatization," a word that has replaced "hysteria" and "psychosomatic," terms now considered offensive.
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Dr. Jeffrey P. Staab, a specialist in psychosomatic and behavioral medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
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"It became a big political thing in Germany—whether it was psychosomatic or whether it wasn't," she said.
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What is Probably Happening Your friend's ironic sexual dysfunction is likely either psychosomatic or being caused by drug reactions.
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If, as some research suggests, it's a psychosomatic condition, they're enabling a life that's miserable for all of them.
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She began to struggle with a psychosomatic ailment that caused her to gag while singing — even sometimes while speaking.
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Whatever happened, it probably isn't simply psychosomatic, according to a new clinical evaluation of 40 of the affected diplomats.
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Suzanne O'Sullivan was awarded the Wellcome Book Prize for It's All in Your Head, a book about psychosomatic illness.
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I've struggled to differentiate these symptoms from the psychosomatic effects of anxiety, since I'm also a world-class worrier.
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ACOSTA: It's another psychosomatic treatment to your body and brain to be like, you can be submerged and not die.
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Belief in katsune-tsuki is a recognized psychosomatic condition in Japan, where its persistence continues to puzzle the medical community.
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Living with the P100D every day isn't about the psychosomatic abilities to break record speeds or to let the car drive.
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I realized that although some of this is certainly psychosomatic, my throat just has this tendency to seize on solid food.
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Being able to bind (and eventually getting top surgery) mitigated those awful feelings and psychosomatic symptoms that came from having breasts.
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Tight-lipped advisers planted the idea that the second recent episode was psychosomatic, brought on by the memory of the first.
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The Cuban delegation said the State Department did not rebut its assertion that the reported illnesses might have been psychosomatic in origin.
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Some researchers have even suggested that smells elicit psychosomatic reactions, deployed by a dysfunction in the odor-processing part of the brain.
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Psychosomatic illness is not fully understood, but stress and traumatic events, such as rape and domestic violence, are suspected to be a cause.
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The findings, published in the November/December issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, tested the link between childhood bullying and being overweight at age 18.
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Mindful viewers will notice psychosomatic responses — rising blood pressure, tears of pride, gritted teeth — regardless of whatever intellectual distance they're able to achieve.
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Dualism oversimplifies both mind and body and leads to a devaluation of the complexly embodied, psychosomatic ways in which beings inhabit the world.
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They reported depression, anxiety, psychosomatic illnesses that would magically disappear the moment they were given what they considered real work; awful sadomasochistic workplace dynamics.
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"It's All in Your Head", which won this year's Wellcome Book Prize, is an illuminating account of psychosomatic disease by Suzanne O'Sullivan, a neurologist.
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Roughly $25 poorer, I hop aboard my scooter, wondering whether the incipient tingling down below is psychosomatic or a sign of ozone-induced infection.
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Wölfling is a researcher in the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz in Germany.
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Consider, for instance, a new study published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology: Scientists showed female college students one of two different photo slideshows.
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The tests from the V.A. had come back negative, indicating that my loss of taste, which would take about six months to return, was psychosomatic.
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The psychosomatic illnesses that people were having just vanish the moment they get assigned a real task, or they quit and get a real job.
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And while it affects an estimated 1 million Americans and 17 million globally, those with the condition are often dismissed as suffering from psychosomatic disorders.
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In addition, children struggle to effectively identify and articulate their depression, and instead, the illness manifests through psychosomatic symptoms, such as stomach aches or headaches.
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From January to April, a third of Rohingya patients presented at counseling with psychosomatic symptoms or chronic pain, medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said.
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But it wasn't until 1987 when the field was more officially recognized in the form of a convention: the International Congress of Psychosomatic Dermatology in Vienna.
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But he says his harassers have also been seeding his body with Morgellons, a painful, insectlike infestation of the skin that many doctors say is psychosomatic.
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The owners of Schoen Klinik, which specialises in orthopaedics, neurology, psychosomatic and internal medicine have put a stake up for sale to generate capital for expansion.
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Psychosomatic factors, he said, can cause "conflicts in the central nervous system" which produce sensations of pain identical to those caused by an "organic" medical problem.
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She doesn't doubt the possibility of someone having psychosomatic pangs that correlate to another's menstrual cycle, though she says she has not experienced it in her practice.
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According to a 2010 study in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, engaging in leisure activities such as time off and travel can lower blood pressure and stress hormones.
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Yet some patients and their advocates say this amounts to a suggestion that the syndrome might be a mental illness or psychosomatic, a notion that enrages them.
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"I think the further you go down the rabbit hole on altitude, you could experience a psychosomatic effect as opposed to a real physical effect," he said.
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The story of a man (Thomas Jane) who kills his wife and then is plagued by a host of psychosomatic horrors, 1922 is King at his grimmest.
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The elusiveness of ME/CFS once led many doctors to consider it a psychological ailment, with people's symptoms blamed on a psychosomatic manifestation of their stress or anxiety.
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And although she published a great deal, she was plagued by a debilitating pain in her right arm, most likely psychosomatic, whenever she was working on a novel.
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He does this to prove to Chuck—a high-brow law partner disabled by a psychosomatic allergy to electricity—that he, too, is capable of being an upstanding lawyer.
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Psychosomatic diseases are ubiquitous and cost health systems a fortune (twice the cost of treating diabetes in America in 2002, for example), yet medical textbooks relegate them to footnotes.
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The two have come to Spain seeking a last-ditch cure for the constellation of bizarre and possibly psychosomatic ailments that plague Rose, including, perhaps, an inability to walk.
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It is well known that male doctors are quick to dismiss women's physical symptoms as psychosomatic, but to encounter that assumption in this book and review was very disappointing.
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A 2002 study Marshall led, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, found that allergic reactions to ragweed pollen cause "significant fatigue and mood changes" in at least some patients.
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But, if you were on the more conservative side of German politics, you were determined to find it not psychosomatic, because that would show that it wasn't his fault.
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CreditCreditBryan Meltz for The New York Times They are patients with diseases that mystify doctors, people whose symptoms are dismissed as psychosomatic, who have been given misdiagnosis upon misdiagnosis.
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For reasons that are both tangible and psychosomatic, there is truly nothing like the middle of February to make you feel as though you won't make it through winter.
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In his research, he learned about the theory behind psychosomatic pain—the idea that negative thoughts can have a negative impact on your body, causing pain with no other explanation.
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The FDA basically said that it was probably in the patient's heads, that it was psychosomatic, that they were probably reacting to a change in color or shape of pill.
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According to Wu, this suggests that cancer should be thought of as a psychosomatic illness, insofar as the mental state of the patient can affect the trajectory of the disease.
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He was sent back to the medical unit, where the medical staff believed he was suffering from "psychosomatic paralysis" and suggested that he be placed in the video-monitored cell.
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Nevertheless, the perceived symptoms are real for the patient, and should be honored as such, or until it can be demonstrated that they are psychosomatic or have some other physical source.
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The assembly's branch in east London is used by a public housing association as a way of helping people whose problems, psychosomatic or psychological, might be eased by joining a community.
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According to a 2009 study from the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, an accumulation of childhood stress can also trigger and increase the risk of developing an autoimmune disorder as a young adult.
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When that illness is mysterious in origin and difficult to diagnose — and dismissed as psychosomatic as in the case of too many women — the conventional rules of engagement no longer apply.
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He said most of his patients improved simply by learning and thinking about the psychosomatic connection to pain, and that others recovered by journaling regularly and, in some cases, doing psychotherapy.
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Still, he hesitates to call SBS a psychiatric or psychosomatic disorder, instead preferring the word "functional", which is also used to describe conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome.
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"It might be over soon," he sings, repeating the mantra with an ominous sense of knowing, familiar to anyone with a sense of the often debilitating clutch of anxiety and its psychosomatic foreboding.
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It can provide relief for conditions considered to be purely physical, including chronic, degenerative and terminal ones, as well as some that may be psychosomatic, such as irritable-bowel and chronic-fatigue syndromes.
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"One time, I was having an attack for several days, and I finally went to the hospital and they were like, 'Oh, it's psychosomatic; there's nothing wrong with you,'" Millius, now 73, recalled.
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"It may be psychosomatic, but for me, the ginseng in the soup and the ginseng liquor—usually sold in a shot glass with the soup—have cooling effects on my body," McPherson says.
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Jimmy's older brother (Michael McKean) spent three seasons locked in battle with both his kid brother, whom he viewed as dangerously amoral, and with his mental illness, a psychosomatic "allergy" to electromagnetic fields.
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By then, Dr. Grayson had become skeptical of the efficacy of controls and maintained that inflation resulted, in part, from a psychosomatic reaction by shoppers to measurements of the temperature of the economy.
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So many people live with endometriosis, and yet, as Norman writes, it can be difficult to convince doctors—especially white, straight, cisgender male doctors—that their pain is meaningful, rather than psychosomatic or totally illusory.
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The daughter here is Sofia, a young English girl who recently dropped out of her anthropology PhD program to accompany her mother, Rose, on a medical pilgrimage intended to cure Rose's wide array of mysterious, possibly psychosomatic illnesses.
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We have long known that women with some conditions are more likely than men to be under-treated for pain, and that doctors are more likely to dismiss reports of illness as psychosomatic when they come from women.
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First comes denial: The VA didn't acknowledge the damage caused by Agent Orange until 1991, nearly two decades after combat troops withdrew from Vietnam, and for years it dismissed the neurological condition known as Gulf War syndrome as psychosomatic.
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Behold Albuquerque's own King Lear, returned to his wits after a lengthy bout of madness — Chuck's is a psychosomatic illness, but work with me here — and is furious not about the loss of a kingdom but of a client.
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" In 193, the veterinarian Michael Fox went so far as to call dogs "Canis over-familiaris," arguing that domestication had resulted in "psychosomatic symptoms such as depression and anorexia nervosa, asthma, diarrhea, convulsions or paralysis of the hind limbs.
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Beyond constrained, psychosomatic, surreal dream imagery and a general slippery machine ambiance, it suggests to me a certain exaggerated erotic desire that values the vulnerability of abused human flesh held in bondage to some imagined non-romantic post-biological reality.
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In cyberbullying the harm is often emotional and includes severe anxiety and depression, social isolation, and an array of lasting problems like suicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosomatic issues, behavior difficulties, as well as alcohol and other substance abuse.
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Maybe it's psychosomatic but I definitely feel several twinges in my chest and I can't help imagining my cardiovascular system straining under the weight of the lipids I'm forcing to deal with—despite the lack of evidence to back up my worries.
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By the time she began regularly seeing a psychiatrist, in 1946, when she was thirty-five, her low literary production seemed to her a problem comparable with her drinking, her disabling shyness, and the asthma that medical science was identifying as psychosomatic.
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"They wait until they're referred to me [by a general practitioner]," she told Science of Us. Many of the immigrants she works carry around deep heartache that eventually turns to headaches and stomachaches, which she sees as psychosomatic symptoms of the mental stress they're under.
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The analysis was undertaken by researchers in Europe, but one of the study's authors, Dr. Ellen Laan, an associate professor in the Department of Sexology and Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam, has been an opponent of the drug.
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Even when presented with new (privately funded) research proving metabolic abnormalities in ME patients, the CDC refuses to stop disseminating information based on discredited research criteria and studies -- including the PACE study, which appears to have manipulated data to propagate the misinformation that patients are sick for psychosomatic reasons.
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Canada has also received information from Canadian and American medical specialists that raised concerns of a possible type of acquired brain injury, the official said, while initial theories of a sonic attack first raised by U.S. officials last year or mass psychosomatic causes are now considered to be improbable.
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There are unpersuasive subplots involving a one-afternoon stand between Massive and Joyce (who serves the standard-issue role of the idealist oddball determined to escape the old neighborhood), Pnut's psychosomatic asthma and Mom's scheme to sue the city by presenting her slow-thinking son as a victim of lead paint poisoning.
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When doctors disbelieve her, or when her relapses reliably "coincide with global turmoil," she wonders whether her symptoms might indeed be psychosomatic, some form of P.T.S.D.; after she becomes addicted to the pills prescribed to treat her insomnia, she seems open to the suggestion that maybe her addiction is the main source of her problems.
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"We have decades' worth of data on the relationship between depression—though not as strongly with anxiety disorders—and comorbidity with almost all medical disorders," says David Gitlin, the chair of the American Psychiatric Association's Council on Psychosomatic Medicine and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved with the study.
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Doing Harm illustrates how women's medical problems have historically been dismissed as either psychosomatic or normal and presents a third possibility: that women indeed are suffering from a disproportionate number of physical health issues—with 12-14 percent worldwide experiencing severe menstrual pain, for example, and 45 percent of American women (compared to 31 percent of men) experiencing chronic pain—but this does not make them normal.
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The other dogma, Pinker argued, is that repressing emotions is bad and expressing them is good — a folk theory with roots in romanticism, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Hollywood, but which is contradicted by a large literature showing that people with greater self-control, particularly those who repress anger rather than "venting," lead healthier lives: they get better grades, have fewer eating disorders, drink less, have fewer psychosomatic aches and pains, are less depressed, anxious, phobic, and paranoid, have higher self-esteem, are more conscientious, have better relationships with their families, have more stable friendships, are less likely to have sex they regretted, are less likely to imagine themselves cheating in a monogamous relationship.
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