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>>22370734
The problem is three fold. First taking a purely physicalist paradigm it is basically assumed that all mental health conditions are caused by problems with the brain. That could be trauma or chemical imbalance. In my personal experience it is not considered that it could be the other way round. That chemical imbalances in the brain were caused by mental problems stemming from any number of circumstances. Second assuming a purely physical cause many diagnosis like ADHD, depression, autism, are diagnosed based on filling out a self reported number of scaled symptoms and family history. If you reach, for what all I could tell is an arbitrary amount of points in certain symptom clusters that qualifies you as having that diagnosis. This diagnostic criteria is determined by things like the DSM5 which appears to be based on consensus rather than hard data as it has been changed for political reasons multiple times. Further there doesn’t appear to be any clear understanding of an underlying condition or conditions that could provoke the symptoms. These diagnoses could be brought about in theory by things like heavy metal pollution, inflammation, vitamin deficiencies, gut micro biome problems, food allergies, and etc. However I am not a doctor I am just reporting my personal experience and what other doctors have said and they could be wrong about this. The final problem is that is easier to sell insurance companies on the fact that they are paying to give a patient a pill than it is to pay for talk therapy. The pills have more quantitative data and scientific aura then paying for cognitive behavioral therapy or Jungian dream analysis. Although in my experience pills never did anything for we and I didn’t start to get better until I began doing therapy on myself to change the way I saw the world and lived my life.