Your Mind Can Cure Your Body

“A psychology student of mine handed me an absence excuse from the ER. She’d been out of class for a week, apparently in the hospital getting poked and prodded, tested and tried with antidepressants (though she swears she’s not depressed from medical doctors) who’ve diagnosed her with Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome. It’s what it sounds like. At random, she’ll vomit profusely, sometimes for days on end and wind up hospitalized for dehydration. It took me five seconds to recognize what (according to her) every other professional who looked at her case, seemed to miss. What she needs is a damn good therapist, not another doctor.”