I used to think about things exactly in the same terms as you do, rejecting anything that didn't have "strong" scientific backing in peer reviewed journals. I c

I used to think about things exactly in the same terms as you do, rejecting anything that didn't have "strong" scientific backing in peer reviewed journals. I considered things like meditation complete bullshit quackery and because of this cynical view I ignored things that could have given me significant help at the time I needed them. Of course when you eventually hit rock bottom you try everything available and then I realized that ignoring all "non-scientific" evidence is not the correct way to evaluate things.