Brenda has back pain from an injury that she sustained in a car accident. because of the pain, brenda experiences a lot of stress. her doctor believes that the stress has made brenda’s back pain worse. which statement best explains why this scenario represents a psychosomatic disease and not a somatoform disorder?

there is a physical illness associated with it.
stress is a major contributor to the illness.
a doctor has analyzed the symptoms of the illness.
the illness affects a specific part of the body.

Stress is a major contributor to the illness.

Explanation:

The word “psychosomatic” is formed by the combination of two Greek words: psyche (meaning soul) and soma (body). A psychosomatic disease, therefore, not only affects the body: it originates from the soul and the psychological, and can cause physical symptoms and illness. For this reason, we can say that Brenda has a psychosomatic disease and not somatoform disorder, because there is a cause for Brenda's problem, stress. In a somatoform disorder there is no cause for the health problem.

Psychosomatic illnesses are related to emotions, feelings, and thoughts - which may be unbalanced by many factors, such as unsurpassed trauma and stress. This kind of problem also manifests itself in the body through pain and physical illness.

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