Jonathan Fields

This is a collection of other things, or we just haven't figured out exactly what's going on.

Some people will say, this is exactly how I would treat this, and this is what we've seen work.

And others are like, we have no idea what to do about this.

You know, so when you're dealing with things that are really on the edge of scientific knowledge, you know, both as a patient and a clinician, how do we get okay with that?

Yeah.

I mean, I feel like we're in this moment where

On the one hand, so many of us, when we feel bad, we just want somebody to tell us what's going on so that we can do the thing or take the thing and be healed.

And we're always looking to other people who we perceive as being the experts, the keepers of the wisdom and the solutions to make everything okay.

Yeah.

But really, there's a lot of agency that we also are being invited into.

And part of it, I often wonder, is do all the things.

Talk to all the people.

And if you get to a point where they're saying, we don't have something that's going to help you right now.

We don't understand what's going on.

Rather than saying, well, I'm at the edge of what science can do for me.

Let me just wait it out and hope for the best.

Like really standing in a place of agency and saying, what else can I do?

Is there something else that may not be part of mainstream or may not be sort of like, maybe I need to pursue five different paths.

That might be really helpful to me.

But again, there's the dance between that and going down the path of scams and things that may potentially be harmful.