Undiagnosed - The Impact of Stress and Emotions on Health

Every day in the Emergency Department, people arrive with real, frightening symptoms—chest pain, dizziness, headaches, gut trouble, numbness—yet scans and blood tests do not explain what is happening. This book shows why this is not the end of the story.

Undiagnosed is a rare view from the front line—where minutes matter, fear is high, and thousands of “mystery” cases pass through each year. Drawing on modern neuroscience, the author explains clearly and simply how stress and emotions can drive physical symptoms—and how understanding this can set you on a path to relief. This is not “it’s all in your head.” It’s how your nervous system writes stress and emotions into your body and how you can rewrite it.

You’ll discover:

• Why symptoms can be severe even when tests are clear, and why that is common in the emergency departments.

• The mind–body pathways behind pain, palpitations, breathlessness, IBS, and more.

• Practical, evidence-informed tools to calm your system (breathing, vagal strategies, sleep, and thought habits) and when and where to find help.

• How to talk to your GP or ED doctor, avoid the “specialist ping-pong”, and recognise true red flags.

• Real patient stories that turn confusion into clarity—and shame into self-compassion.

Hope, not hype: Undiagnosed offers a clear, compassionate roadmap from panic to understanding and from endless appointments to actionable steps. There are many books on psychosomatics, but this one is told by an emergency doctor, where the stakes and insights are different.

Decode your symptoms. Reclaim your life. Start here.