I dont think we all want to be things that are natural to be effective. People want pills to be magically effective. Antidepressants fail to outperform placebo once you remove publication bias, there is no first principle scientific basis for them working, yet they are massively prescribed and advocated for and the “chemical imbalance” myth repeated ad nauseum. Meanwhile, meditation and yoga get massively more skepticism because they’re not pills.

The biggest mistake of our current mental health zeitgeist is sharp skepticism of mindfulness and yoga while accepting the magic of pills on pure faith.