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
  • He also was plagued by anxiety, self-doubt, and real and psychosomatic ailments.
    — Daniel Oppenheimer, New Republic, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Many also presented symptoms that lasted for months and were not psychosomatic, the doctors wrote.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Doctors chalk her complaints up to psychosomatic illness and conduct no further testing.
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • My new surroundings, no doubt, amplified the psychosomatic jolt.
    — David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her mysterious symptoms puzzled doctors, at least one of whom suggested the pain was psychosomatic.
    — Sophie Dodd, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Her mysterious symptoms puzzled doctors, at least one of whom suggested the pain was psychosomatic.
    — Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
  • His group helped dispel the notion that NCGS was purely psychosomatic.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 23 May 2018
  • 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
  • This virtual box may provide some misplaced sense of security and psychosomatic comfort.
    — Nicholas Dodman, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Ongoing conditions include shock, loss of self esteem and psychosomatic symptoms of distress.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • There’s been so much reporting about the possibility of everything being psychosomatic or being stress.
    — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
  • Advertisement There’s a concept in medicine that women’s symptoms are considered more likely to be psychosomatic and more likely based in emotions.
    — Alice Park, Time, 16 Dec. 2025
  • While other researchers immediately disagreed with them, their work and the lack of clear cause for the disease meant that a lot of doctors were comfortable shrugging it off as totally psychosomatic.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Unsure of what to tell me, doctors started to become dismissive, and one neurologist suggested my condition might be psychosomatic.
    — Katie Camero, SELF, 11 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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