Between Trust and Doubt: A Personal Reflection on Medicine and Alternative Care When the Numbers Are Normal, but You Are Not I remember an evening when I sat at the kitchen table looking at my lab results. Everything was “fine.” The reference values were within range. I was not fine. Fatigue had followed me for months, my concentration was weakening, my body felt heavy. “Sir, your laboratory results are normal,” the doctor told me. He was not unkind. He was rational. Still, I went home with a quiet sense of emptiness. On the way back, I caught myself thinking, “Maybe it’s all in my head.” A second thought followed: “Or maybe medicine doesn’t see everything.” That was the first internal dialogue that brought me closer to alternative approaches. Not out of rebellion, but from the need for explanation. The Need for Control When a person feels they have little influence over their condition, he naturally begins to search for ways to participate. Health psychology describes this...