Yes, was just trying to comment on the overall broader critique of the medical sphere you were providing. Your story sounds very personal to you and I am not commenting on that.
I really think it's the other way round, a physical issue that might manifest in some psychological phenomenon due to a lack of brain processing capacity and doctors just take it the other way round, because it's much easier to put an "anxiety sticker" on someone than figure the real underlying problem out. There are even some psychiatrists that consider all mental issues to be problems with brain metabolism, i.e. physical problems manifesting in psychical ones.
> There are even some psychiatrists that consider all mental issues to be problems with brain metabolism, i.e. physical problems manifesting in psychical ones.
Yes, because medicine is ultimately a customer-serving profession, there will be plenty of people saying the things that people want to hear because they are paid to retain customers and people elevate things that are similar to what they want to hear.
People are very uncomfortable with the mental, hence it is now popular to hear very mechanistic explanations of why someone is depressed, etc. about 'brain chemical imbalance' because it makes someone feel less like it is something wrong with who they are as a person (the mind-body dualism is still very present for most people in Western cultures). Of course, ultimately everything (including the functioning of our mind) is mechanistic, but people seem to be more comfortable with very mechanistically couched explanations as compared to 'something is wrong with my mind!' even when the implications aren't all so different.
LC research shows that there are at least three factors going on that might affect functioning of the brain:
1) damaged endothelium with possible microclots clogging up small vessels
2) spike protein reservoir likely causing cellular-level iron deficit (anemia)
3) mitochondrial dysfunction
Some recent research even shows brain hypoperfusion and different levels of oxygen in each hemisphere!
Now ignoring these factors is in my opinion lazy science and a convenient way for medical professionals to state "it's not my problem, go somewhere else, I just want my regular routine without any complications. Go see a shrink".