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Worst thing is, it isn't only influencers and other grifters who use this line of thinking, plenty of doctors and other medical professionals try to brush you off with "it's all in your head/psychosomatic" so they don't have to bother with you and can deny you support, but even if it is my brain playing tricks on itself, I'm still in fucking pain and need help, like wtf?
I have much to say on the subject but not the energy to get it out of my head and in to writing in a way that makes enough sense, so I'll leave it at that for today..
I totally get what you mean.
Historically pretty much any illness medicine haden’t figured out the biological underpinnings was blamed on “it’s all in the mind”.
They used to call us hysterical and lock us up, and now they expect us to be grateful for the "progress" they've made which is basically to relieve themselves of as much caring and effort as they can.. 🙄
I can recommend „the experience machine“ by Andy Clark for this. He describes how idiopathic pain may arise and a possible way of treating it. But it starts with accepting that it’s very real for the patient.
While “predictive processing” is a valid hypothesis, there’s far too little empirical evidence to even start to accept it as fact.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-022-03891-9
Clark’s book is pop science. Some guys scientific theory presented as if it’s fact.
It’s championed by some schools of philosophers and cognitive scientists (and wholly refuted by others).
I feel like you’re doing Andy Clark a disservice by calling him some guy.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a look.