what if believing stuff that's really controversial is good for your immune system
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tbc the mechanism i have in mind is just that believing controversial stuff is fun and having fun is good for your immune system
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it's an interesting alternative medicine confounder 🤔 potentially almost all of the benefit of alternative medicine is that it is more fun than western medicine and this could be good and important actually
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going to a hospital? negative fun
learning about herbs and feeling like a witch? extremely fun
food for thought
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heh i feel the opposite for me, the times i've been to the hospital where the high points of my childhood
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i see D:
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I imagine it's the same kind of dynamic as people saying their grooming was a good thing -- the alternative was worse
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being around non-family adults, being touched / looked after by adults who didnt want to punish/blame me at all and who were more open about what they were doing and why than my parents ever were, who never punished me for crying.
people who saw me as a human and not a doll.
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