WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2016 Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen.
We accept our hearts can flutter with excitement and our brows can sweat with nerves, but on this journey into the very real world of psychosomatic illness, Suzanne O'
Sullivan finds the secrets we are all capable of keeping from ourselves..
In most, an emotional root is suspected which is often the last thing a patient wants to hear and a doctor to say.
As many as a third of people visiting their GP have symptoms that are medically unexplained.
This may be an extreme case, but Pauline is not alone.
But Pauline's tests are normal: her symptoms seem to have no physical cause whatsoever.
Shortly afterwards, convulsions started.
After a routine operation Pauline lost all the strength in her legs.
What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening appendicitis.
WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2016 Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen
