The definition "psychosomatic" has got two roots: psyche ('psyche') and body ('soma'). With psychosomatic disorder we usually mean a disease that affect both mind and body. We can create some diseases by mental factors (stress, fear, wrong thoughts). Do you know your mental state can affect your physical state and cause disease even in a greater or lesser degree than microbes, infections or your life style?
Today, increasingly numbers of medical men take up the position that there is a mental aspect to every physical disease. The severity of illness varies greatly from person to person, as well as its subsequent sickness and recovery time. It is well known today that there are no fatal illnesses there are fatal patients. All physical effects arise from mental illness. So a psychosomatic illness is a physical disease at the heart of which there are mental factors.
What are most demonstrative examples of such diseases? First and foremost they are: stomach ulcers, psoriasis, eczema, eye and ear affections, high blood pressure, abarticulation diseases and heart diseases. Some kinds of pain may be caused by stress, and there will be found no physical disease.
It may be so, you’ve never thought how your mind influence your health and never known that your defective thoughts and bad emotions can choke not even your brain but the whole body. It is time to become full-grown and learn to bear responsibility for your mind.