I Love it When People Blame Cancer on the Patient for Reasons Virtually Out of Their Control

[waywardbard]

Some girl I went to high school with loves to post New Age platitudes as her Facebook statices and I can tell today's is going to go right in the scrapbook:

Cancer is caused by people not dealing with their true inner feelings. When you cut yourself off from parts of yourself, you create cancer. All feeling are you. They all come back to you. To

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[teaandcows]

It doesn't even make sense... (I'm betting the "likes" are people who just click like on anything that sounds philosophical. They think it makes them look smarter.)

Just like with the lovely anti-vaccine movement, the only thing we can try to do is spread truth to fight ignorance.

[waywardbard]

I agree, and if this is not a fight against ignorance, it is at least the fight to get people to think about what they say before they say it. I have just as much trouble with it as the next person, but I feel like this girl's problem is actually an overabundance of introspection. She's so far up her own navel that she's not always tethered to what's going on with other people.

[ladyofshadow]

....whut?

Or my first reaction, WTF?! *facepalm*

Second reaction, "Wait...this sounds familiar..."

People like this give healers a bad name. I hope they get a thwap upside the head soon (preferably with a blunt object).

She sounds like she's summarizing Louise Hay's summary for a cause for cancer from "You Can Heal Your Life" and butchering it. In this book she gives her own personal view of what causes certain ailments based on what she's experienced and also on what she's experienced with others, making it sort of a guideline for possible causes.

http://www.lightconnection.us/Archive/dec06/dec06_article5.htm

[waywardbard]

That was another reason this made me angry: because I know there are responsible healers (like yourself) and oversimplifying this kind of thing does a disservice to legitimate practitioners who use nontraditional remedies not to the exclusion of Western medicine or common sense.

[teaandcows]

Hehe, Dr. Honeybear!