I feel like if he gets his way I’ll be prescribed sunshine, exercise, raw milk, and whatever drug a pharmaceutical bribed him to sell, instead of the immunomodulators I really need.
He’s like a mix of your uncle who thinks your chronic illness would go away if you “go outside and get some sunshine, stop being so negative, and eat more xyz” and your aunt who believes “acupuncture and supplements will cure you and all other medicines are a conspiracy”.
I’m glad you got the diagnoisis you needed. I went to a doctor as a teenager because I had the runs for several weeks. I was 99% sure I had gotten a parasite or other gut based sickness, I had done some traveling to a country known for unsafe water and I had also done a lot of camping that summer and didn’t follow the best rules for sanitatizing water. The doctor I saw tried prescribing me an antidepressant, he thought it was depression causing my gastric distress. It took 6 months of trying this diet or cutting out that food etc until they finally decided to test my stool and found I was sick with Giradia. I was basically a skeleton by the time i finally got the treatment I needed. Since that experience, I have a fair amount of distrust for doctors at least when they are quick to throw pills at a problem.
Ah yeah they have an obsession with antidepressants. It’s also what I was prescribed alongside with exercise instead of doctors actually looking my body and figuring out whats wrong with me.
The billions of dollars pharmaceutical companies have spent on drug trials trying to show antidepressants cure everything have influenced doctors. Now don’t get me wrong SSRI’s are quite helpful for some diseases like biological depression. But some doctors give them out like candy when they really shouldn’t.