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To the legacy of Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez
and to all of the light workers
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The word psychosomatic is a loaded and stigmatized term that implies “it’s all in your head.” Psychiatry remains the wastebasket for the shortcomings of conventional medicine in terms of diagnosing and treating. If doctors can’t explain your symptoms, or if the treatment doesn’t fix the problem and further testing doesn’t identify a concrete diagnosis, you’ll probably be referred to a psychiatrist or, more likely, be handed a prescription for an antidepressant by your family doctor. If you are very persistent that you still need real help, your doctor might throw an antipsychotic at you as well. Most prescriptions for antidepressants are doled out by family doctors—not psychiatrists, with 7 percent of all visits to a primary-care doctor ending with an antidepressant prescription.13 And almost three-quarters of the prescriptions are written without a specific diagnosis.14 What’s more, when the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health did its own examination into the prevalence of mental disorders, it found that “Many individuals who are prescribed and use antidepressant medications may not have met criteria for mental disorders. Our data indicate that antidepressants are commonly used in the absence of clear evidence-based indications.”15
I’ll never forget a case I consulted on several years ago that involved “psychosomatic” facial burning in a woman. Her story is insightful. She complained of an intense burning sensation in her face, though there was no explanation for it other than it being “all in her head.” Her symptoms were so disabling that she was barely able to function. I was still prescribing psychotropics at the time, but a voice inside of me knew there was something real going on, and it wasn’t at all in her head. But unfortunately the Western medical model had already labeled her as being a psychosomatic case, which called for psychiatric medication and couldn’t appreciate or even begin to understand the complexity of her condition. Antidepressants and benzodiazepines (tranquilizers including Valium or Xanax) didn’t help her. What ultimately did was dietary change, supplementation, and rebalancing of her bodily flora. Was this all a placebo effect? Clearly she wanted to feel better with such intensity that she would have done anything. But traditional medication didn’t cure her. At the heart of her pain and distress was an immune and inflammatory process that could not be remedied via antidepressants and antianxiety drugs. It was fixed through strategies that got to the core of her problem—that yanked the nail out of her foot and let the injury heal.
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