Ordinary Banana

the worst part about psychosomatic symptoms is that they are manifestations of mental illness, and since most mental illnesses are incurable beyond palliation, so too are psychosomatic fevers, headaches and so on

i can vaguely understand why mental illnesses are thought of as demonic possession even nowadays. imagine someone randomly vomitting with no discernible cause (panic attack), losing the ability to speak (selective mutism), self-mutilating (psych pain relief).