Quotes About Psychosomatic

They have mental hospitals and body hospitals, as if one doesn't directly affect the other. And so, if they can't accept that a mind is directly responsible for the body of the same person, they are hardly likely to understand how a mind—albeit not a human one—can affect the body of someone else.

When anxiety is internalized and expressed as a physical symptom, the person feels bad "physically", when anxiety is internalized and expressed as an emotional symptom, the person feels bad "mentally.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

Since the affliction was so plainly psychosomatic, the worst thing she could do was to give it space for thought.

Het niet bewust kunnen ervaren en uiten van het gevoelsleven kan bijdragen tot ziek worden. Dat emoties te maken hebben met lichamelijke spanningen en dat ontlading deugd doet, van lachen tot huilen, kunnen we allemaal ervaren. Maar het omgekeerde verband, dat tussen ziekte en het niet kunnen uiten en ontladen van emoties, bleef lange tijd een raadsel. Ondertussen hebben we een sleutel gevonden om de deur te openen naar het holistische netwerk. Die sleutel heet "stress".

Re-enactments may be played out in intimate relationships, work situations, repetitive accidents or mishaps, and in other seemingly random events. They may also appear in the form of bodily symptoms or psychosomatic diseases. Children who have had a traumatic experience will often repeatedly recreate it in their play. As adults, we are often compelled to re-enact our early traumas in our daily lives. The mechanism is similar regardless of the individual's age.