In the past year I have learnt an awful lot about the historic and current maltreatments of a lot of ill people. Medicine is often held on a pedestal as a good

In the past year I have learnt an awful lot about the historic and current maltreatments of a lot of ill people. Medicine is often held on a pedestal as a good example but the reality seems to be they jump to conclusions without good evidence all the time, sometimes they can be found to gaslight patients for decades, ME patients its nearly a century now and covid long haulers are suffering the consequences of that inaction. I have lost a lot of respect for doctors and medical research over the past few years. I suspect pretty much every "mental health" issue will at some point finally be tracked to a physical condition, potentially something we could have been treating decades beforehand if they had bothered to look. I don't know what underpins PTSD, I just know I wouldn't jump to any conclusion. I would want researchers to never stopping looking for answers until we genuinely understand what physically is going on in those individuals bodies. Talk therapy has too long been used to paper over that understanding and tried to tell people they are really just well if they thought differently and I am not convinced that Psychology should be funded as medicine given how it gets it wrong more than it gets it right and can't even get its diagnoses straight. Gulf war syndrome is a physical condition, it is basically PVCS/ME/Fybromylgia but for decades it was considered Psychological. I am constantly appalled by medicines practices.