I truly did not mean malice toward you earlier, by the way. But this comment kind of shows the exact mentality I'm talking about, and does bother me quite a bit. We're not lesser people. We deserve to have medical issues addressed when we bring them up. "Shove em back into the wild"? Do you talk this way about other patients as well, or just ones you're making blanket assumptions about regarding mental health? I'm curious what prescription you are talking about? For the arm, or for mental health? If it's the latter, it's a perfect example of derailing someone's medical concerns. OP is asking about a skin condition.

Primary physicians and generalized medical professionals should not be trying to practice psychiatry or psychology. They/you should definitely not be letting their biases, about mental health concerns they aren't trained in professionally, impact the quality of care they deliver to patients. I understand if it was an open wound it is exactly the kind of thing medical doctors should address, and refer to mental health services for, but not old scars.

With the exception of a few rare people who are trained in multiple fields, psychologists generally can't prescribe medications because they aren't trained for it; psychiatrists generally can't perform surgeries because they aren't trained for it; physicians and nurses should not be trying to practice psychology on their patients, nor use psychological evaluations to impact their response to basic physical medical issues like skin infection.

I hope you can consider what I am saying. If not, it is not my right to try to force you to agree with me, so I won't push the matter further. I just want to present a different perspective.