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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whoa really? what was fun about it?
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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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my parents saw getting medical assistance as punishment, as something which should be unpleasant.
as something where i shouldn't be involved because i'm the one who Broke it, as if there was Body-Sasha (property of parents) and Mind-Sasha (who misbehaved and broke Body-Sasha)
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even today that's their mindset; i had a really bad (and initially, inadequately treated) skin infection, my doctor was worried there was thrombophlebitis and sent me for a stat ultrasound to rule out a DVT and i texted my mom to keep her in the loop while waiting for ultrasound
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the first thing she said after "i hope it's not bad" is "if it's a clot it must be because of the hormones you're taking". like here i am scared shitless of DVT and she's busy trying to blame me (and not the doctor who underdosed Keflex) for it. i cried on the sonographer's table
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and it's just so fucked that i can be far more emotionally open with the sonographer -- in a professional interaction at that -- than i ever could be with my *own parents*.
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gosh. okay maybe hospitals can be good 😭