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1. odyssey7 ◴[] No.44646051[source]
I would reframe this and ask whether psychiatrists should be spending a lot more time understanding the patient’s immune system history and other factors. Brain fogs and other symptoms are understood by many patients to be modulated by other health processes, and physical fitness is considered a treatment by some practitioners, yet psychiatry is recovering from a legacy of medical dogma in which the brain and the immune system are completely separate, due to the idea of the blood-brain barrier. I would recommend to look more comprehensively at patients’ clinically relevant information, which I believe would produce deeper, systems-level understanding and treatments in more than enough cases to be worthwhile.