Vexen Crabtree's Insane Journal

2:16pm: Psychosomosis: Psychoimmunology and Stress
I've re-organized my page "Psychosomosis: Curing and Causing Disease with the Mind" by Vexen Crabtree (2006), to give more prominence to stress. New headers are:

2. Psychoimmunology and Stress
   1. Moods and Disease
   2. The Long-term Health Benefits of Dealing Well with Stress
   3. The Limits of Reverse Psychosomosis

The page introduction reads:

People can exert mental control over their body and mental states, sometimes with long-term results. I hope that by describing what it is possible to do, people will learn to take more control of their mental and physical health. 'Psychosomosis' is sometimes used to mean medical symptoms that derive from purely (subconscious) psychological factors (such as ulcers caused by stress) but I intend to use it in the wider sense; of the effect of the mind on the body, for good (i.e., meditation preventing cancer) and ill (depression causing increased illness). I advocate the strengthening of willpower in order to prevent psychosomatic illness and also for physical health self-empowerment.