I have Chrons Disease. Back in the late 70s before it was understood, and as a child, I had a room full of ‘medical professionals’ try to get me to ‘admit’ that my abdominal pains were the result of ‘mommy hitting you’.
Several surgeries, one flatline and a lifetime of steroids (with their own problems later) I can safely say as an adult that no, mommy wasn’t the problem. Doctors looking for an easy paycheck were.
A similar situation occurred during the 1980s at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto with a tragic ending. A boy was brought in with severe abdominal pain. Their diagnosis was that it was psychosomatic, and the “therapy” they prescribed was to make him clean up the mess every time he vomited. He died the next day from a twisted bowel.