I expect a lot out of health care.
In college, I applied to be a psychology major because I wanted to find some cross over between mental health and how that impacts people's motivation with illnesses that require a lot of care... DIABETES for example.
I later dropped that major because it was going to be expensive, and I did not want to spend that much time in school. There was also the factor that I did not want to be in the medical field or be a therapist (not really knowing that research careers are a thing or how to get into it).
I kinda figured that someone else or people were already doing this work and my experiences as a child were just rare. Most doctors must take a wholestic approach right? Turns out I keep running into the same problem. I'll briefly think that my doctor wants to know my feelings or my therapist will know about chronic illnesses or nutrition and veganism... It doesn't take any time to realize that there is not cross over.
I keep getting reminded over and over, that the care and discussion I'm looking for is not a thing. Most doctors cannot talk about anything outside their specialty, but as a patient if feels like a dead end when they can't discuss the other aspects.
It should be all interconnected. You can't take care of the body without the brain and brain without the body.
You've been sad? How are you eating? How is that affecting your diabetes?
Your blood sugars have been high? How have you been feeling? How is that impacting your eating and exercise?
To me, these are the natural flow of questions I expect. But this has never ever happened. And I just don't see why. Isn't it all intrinsically related??
