[agumonkey]

It's not from the anecdote, I had many many allergies and they appear much more if I'm in a stressful or unfamiliar context.

[sethammons]

Stress is not just a mental state. There are real, physiological changes, such as rising cortisol levels. To say that it is just a "psychology dependent" situation is to say it is all in your head.

[agumonkey]

I didn't mean to imply mental problems, but emotion can trigger imbalances in how your system produce and regulate this molecules.

[dekhn]

that's not psychology, that's neuroscience, and while generally observed, the phenomenon you describe isnt understood.

[DataWorker]

Stress isn't psychological? Think about what you are saying!

[dekhn]

Strictly speaking, from a conventional mainstream scientific view, stress is physiological. Psychology is a subset of physiology (unless you believe minds are aphysical). The "stress" that you feel in your head when you're stressed is only part of a larger, bodywide physical response.

[DataWorker]

Only if you don't realize how psychology involves and implies biology.

[sageikosa]

Probably hormonal or sympathetic nervous system responses helping that along.

[agumonkey]

Presumably yes.

[raducu]

I developed an extreme sensitivity to caffeine after overdosing on another stimulant. Before, I could drink 5-6 espressos without a problem, after the incident, ~25mgs of caffeine gets pretty uncomfortable.

[agumonkey]

I had to stop eating almost everything in a grieving period, bodies are .. weird.