psychosomatic

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I am sorry for your friend's psychosomatic illness.

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used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis

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adjective

used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis

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adjective

used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis

Example sentences

I am sorry for your friend's psychosomatic illness.

Looking down to see the pedals and "feeling" your vehicle react to your foot pressing could be more psychosomatic than we really know yet.

The placebo effect is real and strong and works even on some maladies that aren't psychosomatic.

No doubt some of it is psychosomatic, but it varies by person, and there are definitely other factors in play in many cases.

So it's possible my sleeping habits are partly psychosomatic.

Your experience sounds psychosomatic: "this is newer, it's probably slower.

I am sure there is some kind of psychosomatic side that makes you perform better because you think you will but suffering real lack of sleep cannot be "tricked" better with positive thinking just like how depression cannot be fixed by just "thinking happy".

Spontaneous improvement, fluctuation of symptoms, regression to the mean, additional treatment, conditional switching of placebo treatment, scaling bias, irrelevant response variables, answers of politeness, experimental subordination, conditioned answers, neurotic or psychotic misjudgment, psychosomatic phenomena, misquotation, etc.