Originally Posted by
Feonixbrimstone
Vash have you heard "its all in the mind?" how there are no physical explanations for an illness the mind is making the body sick?
Did you know Feonix that until fairly recently, ulcers were considered to be caused by stress? I.e. "its all in the mind"?
I remember in the early 80s when that initial report came out. It was a couple of Australian docs, actually (that for Mish & CB) who figured out it was caused by H. pylori. Noone believed them, actually, so Barry Marshall drank a bacterial culture and basically gave himself an infection which he then took antibiotics for. They got a nobel prize for this discover, fyi.
My point is that something is often only "in the mind" until an explanation is found. There are lots of examples like this in medicine. Mononucleosis is another example that comes to mind, young people who got sick from EBV/CMV were being told it was stress, hyperchondriasis, etc until we learned better.
Second thoughts can generally be amended with judicious action; injudicious actions can seldom be recovered with second thoughts.
--Cyteen by C.J.Cherryh