Hi, Lorna! I've experienced the physical versus psychological pain dilemma, too. And yes, I would receive lesser quality care if I told my doctor that I was depressed. It got to where I would withhold that information until after the doctor had successfully treated me. It was pretty amusing to watch their faces when they realized that they would have treated me differently and much less successfully had they known I struggled with depression. Caveat: I was not taking antidepressant medications at the time which would need to be shared with the doctor. Anyway, I digress...

It could very well be true that at least some of your physical pain is, gasp, purely physical in origin. In my case, I got rid of chronic lower back pain, cramping, bloating, gas, alternating constipation and diarrhea, severely itchy skin almost overnight when I switched to a gluten-free diet. The symptoms I listed above could be caused by anxiety and depression also, but they weren't.

My point is that your aches and pains can be purely physical in origin. Unfortunately, medical doctors seem to be too lazy to really get to the bottom of things. Instead they apply treatments based on the law of averages when you may be on the outer edges of the bell curve. And it takes alot of investigation and trying things out on your part until you find what the problem really is. Try typing all your symptoms into a search engine and see what you come up with. That's how I figured out that I'm sensitive to gluten.

Good luck!