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can someone get viral infection like sickness from psychological disorders?

Say you have mental problems like over worries and sort of things like that. Is it possible to get sickness like you feel those symptoms of something looks like viral infections. I mean can our body trigger illusion of mind which u can actually suffer those symptoms. LIke weight loss, loss of apetide and flu like illness and many many others?

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    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    No. Your body cannot create a virus by thinking about it.

    However, people do catch viruses. If you worry about catching the flu, you might actually catch the flu. But it isn't because you worried about it. It is because you were exposed to the flu virus from someone who was sick.

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