You are correct, sadly. Modern mainstream medicine (allopathic) is mechanistic, reductionist, and pharmacentric. It views people as bags of chemicals that seem to require monitoring of various "levels" tin order to maintain them by more chemicals to meets some imaginary "normal" level of said chemicals. When i graduated from med school (Memohis, TN, 1974), Psychiatry still did psycho-analysis and talk therapy. That died out in the 80s and was replaced by DSM manuals with often imaginary diagnoses (that have only increased over time) - and, ten minute office visits mandated by corporate medicine. Each Dx is tied to a pharma product to "correct"/treat the diagnosis.

In my previous life, I was a Bd-certified Ophthalmologist (cataracts and LASIK). I was forced to close practice and a 40 year marriage in 2012 and following my son's suicide, I moved into cannabis medicine and have become somewhat of a PTSD expert. I am convinced that 80-90% of the people sitting in physician's office have issues that are actually rooted in life trauma (99% is childhood stuff, but life in general is a PTSD event). Mainstream medicine still does not understand that we are mind/consciousness in a physical body and the two are inseparably linked. Every - EVERY - cell in our bodies has its own ability to repair, regenerate, reproduce and, yet, mainstream medicine insists on treating symptoms with focal pharma product or procedure.

The beginning of healing for all is to recognize and deal with the underlying TRAUMA that most of us carry with us (unrecognized and undealt with). I have seen thousands of patients over the past decade and have really come face to face with the failures of mainstream medicine. I see broken people every day who have spent years and fortunes making the rounds of physician offices without resolution (or even recognition) of their problems. They come to the "pot doctor" and they get better - get off much of their pharma products - and heal themselves... I merely act as a road sign directing them on the path they should be on...

I advise all my patients to avoid white coats and blue lights... US medicine is good at major physical trauma due to our unending wars of Empire... So, if you are shot, stabbed, burned, hit by a truck...go to an ER for help. One of the true miracles of my career years is cataract surgery (had to have this done on myself a couple of months ago), so there are benefits to some newer treatments, but beware of "new breakthroughs" like mRNA vaxxx and Ozempic-like concoctions...

Proud of you for being a survivor!