It's worth remembering that about 20% of people are susceptible to being convinced they're sick or better (placebo and nocebo effect). That's the approximate number of people who report feeling better while ill by simply going to a clinic and seeing someone in white doctor's garb, and then going home. That's also the amount of people who will develop asthma-like symptoms when you advertise to them that the building they work or live in has mold issues with air quality.Is this true? If so, this changes my world view.And the most fucked up part is that while the disease is imaginary, effects are real. People can die from a nocebo asthma attack.
This is why advertising mental illnesses should be criminalized and punished harshly. Regardless of reasons for doing it. Because you're effectively infecting about 20% of the population with a mind virus that has real physiological symptoms.
Oh and the way to cure people with nocebo asthma? Doesn't work to tell them they have a mind virus, rather than a real illness. They will dismiss this. The only way found to be even remotely effective is to convince enough of them of something they can believe that like "yes it's real, but it's being worked on and your symptoms should slowly ease over time". And anyone advertising that "oh this guy in the left building told us it's getting worse" has a very good chance of making symptoms worse, even if said people never visited that building.
And DSM being as advertised as it is, is basically Grandpa Nurgle of mind viruses. Infecting a massive amount of people with symptoms of problems they don't actually have. With activists insisting on "awareness" being basically Chaos Demons of Nurgle, spreading magical plagues and poxes that cannot be cured by normal means.
I am used to libertarian beliefs where people have the autonomy to manage their own lives. And that people should be told about physical and mental illnesses, so that they can self-diagnose and treat their diseases.
This is foolishness. Much of the help is making people worse. I need to verify this. Maybe much of medicine is not even real.
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The price of freedom is that stupidity can easily kill you. The alternative is far worse, living in a policed state that keeps you so controlled and monitored you have fewer ways to harm yourself and you are kept isolated from the consequences of your own actions.
Thinking for one's self has always terrified those who desire power.
Fear and stupidity in pursuit of security has always been the shortest path to tyranny.
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