Because doctors in the western medicine tradition don't always accept a patient's symptoms at face value.
The person in the story got referred to psychiatry because medicine didn't believe him.
Similarily, many legit medical disorders are discounted as not real symptoms by western medicine until decades later, for example, lyme disease, which is caused by a real organism with a real transmission pathway (ticks), with repeatable symptoms, but was discounted for years as "patients just making things up".
The person in the story got referred to psychiatry because medicine didn't believe him.
Similarily, many legit medical disorders are discounted as not real symptoms by western medicine until decades later, for example, lyme disease, which is caused by a real organism with a real transmission pathway (ticks), with repeatable symptoms, but was discounted for years as "patients just making things up".