Chronic diseases and chronic pain are not ALL caused by stress/fear/repressed emotions/past trauma. This idea needs to stop. Some are, sure, I would not argue the reality that stress can contribute and even cause some diseases. But it's not always black and white. I've had the most egregious gaslighting of real physiological issues from the “pain reprocessing” camp that seriously harmed me.
There's a million reasons why this theory doesn't check out: for starters, it don't acknowledge the major research gap on female bodies and everything that happens in them; it ignores the statistically relevant incidences of missed diagnoses and misdiagnosis of illness in women and other medically marginalized groups due to our pain and symptoms being minimized/dismissed not just on an individual basis but en masse, over centuries. It also ignores the fact that medical science does not yet know everything there is to know about the human body and every ailment that affects it. They don’t acknowledge there is new research coming out all the time on physiological ailments that were formerly just mysterious syndromes often attributed to psychosomatic factors. They wave that away saying “it’s important to be checked by a doctor to rule out structural causes” without acknowledging that doctors are often too ignorant/biased, or lacking the practical diagnostic resources to actually even actually do that.
It all ultimately boils down to the "belief in a just world" fallacy. If we can blame patients, and say scary diseases we don't understand yet are caused by their thoughts/brains, and that the only way to heal is by pretending they're not sick and in pain, everyone else can not only feel safe from ever becoming disabled themselves, they can shut us down from even trying to talk about our experiences and asking for support.
#itsallinyourhead #psychosomatic #chronicillness #chronicpain #invisibledisability #justworldfallacy #neuroplasticity #victimblaming #healyourself #ehlersdanlossyndrome #chronicpelvicpain
#vestibulodynia #pudendalneuralgia
#iatrogenicharm #sexmed #nervedamage #pudendalnerve
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