It leaves out a very important part of processing illness: knowing what happened. When people are sick they want to know “what’s wrong with me.” When given med

It leaves out a very important part of processing illness: knowing what happened. When people are sick they want to know “what’s wrong with me.” When given medication they want to known how the medication works. Unexplained healings are better than being sick, but not as good actually knowing what was wrong with you. For example, someone has 6 hour episode where they detach from reality and have intense hallucinations. What are these hallucinations? Repressed fears? Forgotten desires? These hallucinations are possible the most intense phenomena this person will ever experience. What do they mean?!? The real upside is that psychiatrists have the humility to say “we have no idea how this works.” The downside is it leaves room for pseudo-experts to peddle whatever trash they want.