Psychosomatic condition

Why not? I believe any affliction can be psychosomatic. The mind is a powerful thing.

And I think stress is a cause for spastic bowel syndrome.

Richard

If stress is causing it, it's not psychosomatic.

Yes, stress can mess up your stomach. That's why there are some days I guzzle Pepto.

well I am experiencing it I have irritable bowels .
padma

Just a note- "Psychosomatic" is a lot more complex than "it's all in your head."
Brain imaging is now showing physical, treatable neurological changes in patients with conditions like phantom-limb syndrome.

Smiling Ted said:

Just a note- "Psychosomatic" is a lot more complex than "it's all in your head."
Brain imaging is now showing physical, treatable neurological changes in patients with conditions like phantom-limb syndrome.

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Technically speaking, disorders of the it's-all-in-your-head variety are termed somatization disorder, or to use an older term, somatic conversion, or even older, hysterical conversion. True psychosomatic disorders have both a physical and a psychological component.

Some patients do react to anxiety or stress by having loose bowels without any apparent physical cause. This is an example of somatization/somatic conversion.

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