Cause Of Negative Connotations Around Psychosomatic Illness

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Psychosomatic illness will be examined through the mechanism of stress and the fight or flight response, particularly as it functions in relation to the suppression of trauma and or emotional disturbances. The body's reaction to suppressed emotional stressors is crucial in understanding how psychosomatic illnesses are formed, perpetuated and unfortunately subjected to: misunderstanding, stigma, and dismissal. The underlying and deeply embedded causes of the negative connotations around psychosomatic illness, will be explained and examined through a sociological, political and psychological lense. Through this lense the medical industry will be understood as a mechanism of power and social control, legitimized by its own production of knowledge.

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