This rings so true. I have a dear, sweet friend who is a bright, bubbly physical therapist. She married young and her husband was controlling beyond what any of us could have imagined until they finally separated 10 years later. Horrible emotional abuse - she walked on eggshells for all that time. After they split up, she met someone new, they married and had a beautiful baby - and she was diagnosed with MS not long after. Zero family history. More than one of our friends has wondered aloud whether those 10 years of stress contributed - I absolutely believe that they did.
Emotional trauma shows up in the body in so many ways. There was a great thread on here about physical signs of stress after being with an A and there were lots of "I thought I was crazy" posts. Ringing in the ears was the one that I remember most, along with facial tics. There is no doubt in my mind that emotional abuse affects our physical health over the short and long term.
By the grace of God, never again.
SL.