> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:11:58PM -0600, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:

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> > Has your wife had her sensitivity examined by medical professionals? Is

> > it a physical problem or a psychosomatic condition?

On 30/01/2008, Douglas A. Tutty  wrote:

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> Yes.  Physical.

Let's remember here that it doesn't matter whether it's allegedly

"physical" or allegedly "psychosomatic", it only matters that she's in

pain. At the end of the day, both "physical" and "psychosomatic" pain

sensations are **exactly** the same:
The same synapses fire, the same neurotransmitters get released, the

same chemicals are involved. For pain, it really and truly does not

matter what started it, because in terms of the central nervous

system, the pain is the same and just as real, regardless whether it

was triggered directly ("physical") or indirectly ("psychosomatic").

In the end of the day, either pain sensation is both physical and

psychosomatic, and the brain can't distinguish and doesn't care how it

started. More enlightened MDs will tell you as much.
"How it started" is only interesting in trying to find and address

root causes, but it doesn't say anything about how real the pain is.
--ropers