(disclaimer: I don't know if this corresponds to what the author has been doing, it's based on my own personal experience and by now ~15y struggles with somethi

(disclaimer: I don't know if this corresponds to what the author has been doing, it's based on my own personal experience and by now ~15y struggles with something similar--thankfully minus the pain he describes) The thing is, if you've had nine years of battling these symptoms (that are mysterious and won't go away), you've had time to have go at all of the approaches you name. Try them one by one, in combination, note what seems to work, psychological/mental, physiological, dietary, environmental, natural, pseudo-scientific, alternative, magical, religious, (quasi) pseudo-religious ... you name it. You become an expert at yourself, but that's super hard because you are most biased at this topic (step one: keep a diary). Obviously there will also be placebo effects (which I hope we all agree do have tangible medical effects), and sometimes the pseudoscientific-treatment-that-doesn't-work will have better placebo effects than the medical/scientific-treatment-that-doesn't-work. Either way, as long as you keep moving, keep fighting, and keep a clear head about it, you'll keep learning, even from the things that are on the surface bullshit (and sometimes you just need a break and try something that couldn't possibly work). I too hope that indeed this person is not stuck in a cycle of pre-occupation with one particular thing, but he is just describing his most current working-theory in the continuous string of attempts.