The label "mental cause" has a profoundly negative effect on patients. Think for a moment about the message the physician is giving to his patient. The physician is actually saying, "We haven't been able to find a real cause of your illness, so that means your own mind and nervous system in causing your disease. To be a little more blunt, you are the cause of your disease. It's your fault you are sick. It's your anger, your impatience, bad moods, thoughts and emotions combined with your explosive irritability that is at the root of your problems. Frankly, inside that brain of yours lies such an odious, unpleasant person that your own body can't stand you! Your body has become diseased because it has to carry such an awful person inside."