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I've experienced the same response from doctors regarding an abnormal reaction to the drug finasteride, and it is extremely difficult to manage emotionally. They have never seen the problems I had yet have seen many people they alleged had psychosomatic issues so probabilistically it made sense on their end that I would probably be the latter. But many of them have dogmatically clung to the idea that since they don't understand how my problems could be caused by the drug it has to be impossible. The idea of psychosomatic diseases functions as catch-all that encompasses everything that can't be explained with our current understanding.

Few clinicians I've worked with were willing to admit that their medical science is not advanced enough to explain my problem rather than calling me crazy, even though it was just one lifetime ago that antibiotics were even discovered.



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