It's not magic, it's spiritual conflict and it's real.

I'll add just one point to reinforce what you said about the care providers.

Consider a doctor who sees ten patients in an 8 hour workday. Plus charting. Plus reading charts. Plus writing scripts. Plus mandatory TPS reports. They have zero bandwidth to spend a few hours a day looking at kooks on the fringe of social media. But they do have three seconds to hear a soundbyte from the Health Authorities telling them the latest thing is Safe and Effective. So they recommend it and shit on the opinions of independent thinkers.

Is it a dereliction of duty? Yes. Is it common and the easy thing? Yes. Is it the patient's responsibility to be sure the therapy you are advised to take is going to be what you need? Sadly because of the above, yes. Are the trains surrounded by affirmation-only hugboxes that tell they are heckin cute and valid and all will be sunshine and roses when they troon out? Yes. So they're trapped in a hole of bad advice and can't see the way out except the hard way of psychological awakening as you described, if they live long enough.