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Sure it's absurd, if you're just hurling around vacuous rhetoric. But what happens when you need to invoke evidence? Stress aggravates symptoms of all kinds of physical conditions, and it can inhibit people taking proper health measures. But all the old "theories" (stress "causing" ulcers, miscarriages, allergies, IBD, breast cancer, heartburn, hypertension, Tourette's, acne, infertility, schizophrenia, MS, eczema, etc. etc. etc.) have been debunked and buried, one after another, with the advance of scientific research and knowledge. And, not so coincidentally, the success rate in treating and/or curing many conditions has advanced as well - once the hocus-pocus is deleted.
A couple of things are becoming increasingly clear
A)you don't possess any systematic manner of assessing empirical resulst. I guess maybe you consult the Tarot to determine which scientific results to believe or maybe you just read popular science.
B)You have a rather simplified and linear understanding of causality. There is rarely if ever a single cause in the etiology or expression of any disease process. You fail even to realize that your own statements contradict each other claiming that stress "aggravates symptoms" symptoms but has no causal role in the expression of a disease process. Disease is not a singular isolated event, with a singular isolated cause or cure. It is well established that psychoemotional factors play a prominent role in the both the mediation and expression of disease. That is a central premise behind the fields of neuroimmunology and neuroendocrinology.
Your general hypothesis appears to be
A)physiology operates in isolation of any interactions with social, psychologicl or even physical elements of environment.
Therefore psychoemotional factors have no or little impact on physiology, health or well-being and there are no social determinants of health.
Sorry to break it to you Dr. Science but emotional and cognitive processes are an inseparable component of human physiology and are henceforth inextripably connected any physiological proess.
As Hans Seyle demonstrated any organism under severe prolonged stress will experience break downs in essential physiological mechanisms of homestatic regulation and will eventually die. There are countless human and animal studies that verify this.