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The problem with psychosomatic diagnoses is that they can never be proven
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The problem with psychosomatic diagnosesis that they can never be proven

Unrest • 2017
The problem with psychosomatic diagnoses
is that they can never be proven

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The problem with psychosomatic diagnoses is that they can never be proven.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:47:09
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, drama, history
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When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
They are names we give to illnesses when we can’t find a biological cause but that doesn’t mean there isn't one. - Unrest 00:09
They are names we give to illnesses when we can’t find a bio...
A girl who under many circumstances cannot admit to angry feelings. - Unrest 00:08
A girl who under many circumstances cannot admit to angry fe...
This is the story we tell until doctors can see our disease from the outside. - Unrest 00:08
This is the story we tell until doctors can see our disease ...
MS was called hysterical paralysis right up to the day they invented a CAT scan machine. - Unrest 00:09
MS was called hysterical paralysis right up to the day they ...
Because now we had the capacity to look at the brain and see those great big white spots of demyelination. - Unrest 00:08
Because now we had the capacity to look at the brain and see...
>> Jennifer: We used to institutionalize women with hysteria. - Unrest 00:06
>> Jennifer: We used to institutionalize women with...
It s always tempting to look at the past as something strange and distant - Unrest 00:10
It s always tempting to look at the past as something...
But what I could never have imagined, had I not gotten this disease, is that we’re still doing this. - Unrest 00:10
But what I could never have imagined, had I not gotten this ...
In Denmark the health authorities do not recognize ME as a physical disease. - Unrest 00:12
In Denmark the health authorities do not recognize ME as a p...
They say it is a psychiatric disease. - Unrest 00:05
They say it is a psychiatric disease.
Karina is only being seen by the psychiatric doctors that took her away from her parents. - Unrest 00:07
Karina is only being seen by the psychiatric doctors that to...
She's not been allowed to be seen by any other doctors. - Unrest 00:06
She's not been allowed to be seen by any other doctors.
>>Jennifer: When I first heard of this story I could hardly believe it. - Unrest 00:06
>>Jennifer: When I first heard of this story I could h...
But I learned that in many countries doctors have been removing severe patients from their homes for decades. - Unrest 00:09
But I learned that in many countries doctors have been remov...
This is their general idea: - Unrest 00:08
This is their general idea:
Your parents indulge these beliefs, and this has kept you sick. - Unrest 00:07
Your parents indulge these beliefs, and this has kept you si...
So removing you from their influence is the only way you can get better. - Unrest 00:07
So removing you from their influence is the only way you can...
Maybe it's harder to see the harm when it's caused by good intentions. - Unrest 00:08
Maybe it's harder to see the harm when it's caused...
When my neurologist diagnosed me, he said my symptoms were caused by a distant trauma. - Unrest 00:08
When my neurologist diagnosed me, he said my symptoms were c...
One I might not even remember. - Unrest 00:06
One I might not even remember.