Joanne Smith explains how your brain creates pain as a protective alarm, even when there's no tissue damage. Stress, fear, or conflict can trigger real physical symptoms. The brain doesn't distinguish between a genuine threat and a perceived one.
Because pain is produced by the brain as a protection response. It will warn us if there is legitimate tissue damage, if there is a legitimate— like, I burnt my arm ironing, and clearly it did warn me that I burnt my arm. Like, that was a legitimate warning alarm. I actually have got a little scab now. Um, which is healing quite well. Um, so obviously there are occasions where that does— is a legitimate damage to your body, but the same process happens, um, again, can happen when the brain perceives that there is a problem and that there is a potential threat, and it will alarm us with symptoms too, even though there may not be any legitimate damage. So, and that, like I said, there doesn't need to be an injury or any particular thing. It can literally respond with physical symptoms if there is some stress, some fear, anticipation about a certain event, any uncertainty, an argument, conflict.
