How to Use psychosomatic in a Sentence

psychosomatic

adjective

• The doctor told her that her stomach problems were psychosomatic.
• 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
• 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
• To explain this away as some sort of psychosomatic ulcer?
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
• Maybe it’s because when a cause is unknown, it is often assumed to be psychosomatic.
  — Maria Konnikova, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
• His group helped dispel the notion that NCGS was purely psychosomatic.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 23 May 2018
• Many also presented symptoms that lasted for months and were not psychosomatic, the doctors wrote.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 21 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• He also was plagued by anxiety, self-doubt, and real and psychosomatic ailments.
  — Daniel Oppenheimer, New Republic, 2 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Doctors chalk her complaints up to psychosomatic illness and conduct no further testing.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Even now, officials who report these symptoms are closely screened to confirm whether their symptoms are physical or psychosomatic.
  — Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There’s been so much reporting about the possibility of everything being psychosomatic or being stress.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024