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When your mind files a complaint and your body picks up the tab.
means Describes physical symptoms that are real but caused or worsened by emotional or mental stress.
from Greek psyche (soul/mind) welded to soma (body), entering medicine in the 1800s to name what the two do to each other.
Real symptomsThe pain is genuine, not imagined or faked.
Two-way streetStress can trigger ulcers, headaches, real fevers.
Cousin termNow often called psychophysiological in clinical settings.