> Second, the medical system just gives up on you if the issue is psychosomatic. There are no treatment protocols that work, so agreeing that something is psych

> Second, the medical system just gives up on you if the issue is psychosomatic. There are no treatment protocols that work, so agreeing that something is psychological is just having your case tossed on the trash heap to be ignored. Maybe it's because we need to change our approach to psychotherapies in general. The reason psychology as a whole is not considered hard science is because replication is hard and in some cases impossible (good luck finding subjects who haven't heard about the Stanford prison experiment today). Why don't we accept this is just the way it works. That some therapies will work for some people and won't work at all for others (or might even make their symptoms worse). That therapy needs much more time than a pill to work - instead of hours, we're talking weeks and months, possibly years. That the evaluation of the results always has an element of subjectivity: sure, you can measure some physiological aspects, but there is always the internal component of well-being.