The Clog from OzPsychosomatic Lord Chesterfield
June 19th 2006 22:53
“I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.”
~ Lord Chesterfield - [Mind]
Lord Chesterfield was dead right. There is an actual medical phenomenon that explains this: being psychosomatic. ‘Psycho’ meaning mind, and ‘soma’ meaning body; psychosomatic sufferers have physical illnesses caused by underlying mental or emotional conditions rather than physiological problems. Psychosomatic illnesses are not imaginary. They are physical disorders which usually develop when a person's disease-fighting ability is weakened due to stress. After a particularly stressful event, like the loss of a loved one, for example, an individual might develop high blood pressure or even have a heart attack, but another may suffer from asthma attacks. For a psychosomatic illness to occur, a person must first be vulnerable in a particular body system.
So there you go, Lord Chesterfield was on the right track, possibly a few hundred years before the term ‘psychosomatic’ was coined in the mid 19th century.
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~ Lord Chesterfield - [Mind]
Psychosomatic illness relates the Mind and the Body
So there you go, Lord Chesterfield was on the right track, possibly a few hundred years before the term ‘psychosomatic’ was coined in the mid 19th century.
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