And nothing about it being psychosomatic means it is any less serious or real a problem. The placebo effect regularly accounts for ~20% of treatment effects, it is extremely clear that our minds have significant power to influence the functioning of our bodies.
But the stigma attached to mental illness is real, so many/most sufferers are not at all receptive to this advice.
Just a short period of observing people who suffer from these syndromes makes it very clear that this is a psychological issue. There is a whole cluster of these vague illnesses that afflict a subset of the population with predictable psychological and demographic attributes. Nothing about their physical mechanics is in any way similar; the common mechanism is psychological.
But the stigma attached to mental illness is real, so many/most sufferers are not at all receptive to this advice.
Just a short period of observing people who suffer from these syndromes makes it very clear that this is a psychological issue. There is a whole cluster of these vague illnesses that afflict a subset of the population with predictable psychological and demographic attributes. Nothing about their physical mechanics is in any way similar; the common mechanism is psychological.