> Educating people on these topics and getting more doctors to offer the necessary blood and stool tests to rule out pathogenic causes before commencing psychia

> Educating people on these topics and getting more doctors to offer the necessary blood and stool tests to rule out pathogenic causes before commencing psychiatric treatment could potentially help millions of people. Are there even accurate tests for many of these? Take long Covid as a modern challenge. Most people already have antibodies of some kind and a fraction still struggle with mental challenges post infection that repurposed SSRIs can significantly help with. Just the other day there was even an article about people being overprescribed SSRIs. If I were to summarize the article in a few words it would be: Stress caused by pathogens can lead to chronic illness. You can say the same about most stresses in life too though and their similar correlations as made in this article.