But, if you want something more real, how about cancer pain? Many people experiencing cancer pain experience relief from that pain with the help of the treatment you ignorantly dismiss as "self help emotional woo".
A lot of CFS patients bring up the subject of stomach ulcers. It's almost as if they want to prove that psychosomatic illness doesn't exist.
Everyone knew that there were multiple contributing risk factors, including physiological, behavioral, and stress-related, for gastric ulcers before H. Pylori's contribution was discovered. And all those other factors are still relevant after H. Pylori, too, its just one added factor that wasn't known previously.