How to Use psychosomatic in a Sentence
psychosomatic
adjective- The doctor told her that her stomach problems were psychosomatic.
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The next time, a spokesman said the shaking could have been triggered by a psychosomatic reaction to the first trembling episode.
—Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 10 July 2019
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Maybe all of this is psychosomatic, and the Thunder uniform’s sky blue triggers Aldridge the way the color red sets off a raging bull.
—Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 1 Jan. 2020
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To explain this away as some sort of psychosomatic ulcer?
—The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
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Maybe it’s because when a cause is unknown, it is often assumed to be psychosomatic.
—Maria Konnikova, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
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His group helped dispel the notion that NCGS was purely psychosomatic.
—Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 23 May 2018
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Many also presented symptoms that lasted for months and were not psychosomatic, the doctors wrote.
—Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 21 Feb. 2018
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But the shot-calling undermines the movie’s pro-psychedelics argument, because there is no way to control for the psychosomatic effects of starring in a documentary.
—Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020
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Perhaps anxiety played more of a role than Curreri could admit; perhaps some of what had curtailed his playing was psychosomatic.
—Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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He also was plagued by anxiety, self-doubt, and real and psychosomatic ailments.
—Daniel Oppenheimer, New Republic, 2 Oct. 2017
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After an array of tests on my brain, nerves, and joints all came back normal, five different doctors dismissed my symptoms as stress-induced or psychosomatic.
—Lizz Schumer, SELF, 26 Sep. 2017
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Last season, Devi reflected on the trauma of watching her father die, which briefly left her paralyzed by psychosomatic shock.
—Danielle Broadway, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2021
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Several studies have shown that long-distance commuters suffer from psychosomatic disorders at a much higher rate than people with short trips to work.
—Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 27 Sep. 2020
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Most have psychosomatic symptoms – meaning the symptoms are real but arise from stress or emotional causes, not external ones.
—Robert Baloh, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2021
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Doctors chalk her complaints up to psychosomatic illness and conduct no further testing.
—Womensmedia, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
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Even now, officials who report these symptoms are closely screened to confirm whether their symptoms are physical or psychosomatic.
—Katie Bo Williams, CNN, 17 May 2021
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Medical experts who investigated his claims reached the conclusion that a good number of the ailments from which his patients suffered were psychosomatic.
—Richard J. Evans, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
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In the debate about long Covid, psychosomatic explanations are not rejected on the basis of stigma or resistance to the seriousness of mental illness.
—Diane O'Leary, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021
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The psychosomatic symptoms spread rapidly among the children: witnessing their classmates fall ill during a school assembly triggered a spread of symptoms through the 224 students honoring the sixth-graders who were graduating.
—Gary W. Small, STAT, 10 Dec. 2021
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And because one in three migraineurs are women, the disease has long been dismissed, or at least minimized, as just another psychosomatic condition of neurotic women.
—Jenifer Frank, courant.com, 24 Feb. 2022
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There is no good evidence for this, but several recent studies suggest that the adverse symptoms (such as headaches and vertigo) are a psychosomatic response to the fear-mongering of anti-wind activists and newspapers.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2013
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Forced to process it all, Juliette was hospitalized with a psychosomatic illness, suffering from such extreme stomach pain to the point doctors had considered taking out her appendix.
—Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
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Her symptoms were psychosomatic, triggered by the belief that she was just targeted by an immaculate poisoning.
—Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2022
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The study found that younger Americans also consistently show higher rates of psychosomatic symptoms, like having trouble sleeping, getting headaches or crying, compared to other age groups.
—CBS News, 11 Sep. 2020
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Two women, a famous actress afflicted with a psychosomatic loss of speech (Liv Ullmann) and a garrulous nurse (Bibi Andersson)--share a remote seaside cottage where their identities overlap, blur and eventually merge.
—Greg Burnett, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
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Someone who is Clear is less susceptible to disease and is free of neuroses, compulsions, repressions, and psychosomatic illnesses.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
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Dr. Bullock is a psychiatrist, not a pain specialist, and only sees patients dealing with psychosomatic disease.
—Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 15 June 2017
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Clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Ime coined the term imposter syndrome in 1978 when investigating these and other physical symptoms that stemmed from mental self-doubt as a psychosomatic pattern.
—Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2018
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There’s been so much reporting about the possibility of everything being psychosomatic or being stress.
—Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
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This virtual box may provide some misplaced sense of security and psychosomatic comfort.
—Nicholas Dodman, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017
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