burtlancast
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Durey said:Don't know about my sister, though. She's not really open to intellectual reasoning, neither is she interested in acquiring knowledge or reads anything more challenging than a detective novel. And I don't mean to describe her in a disparaging way - she's just more the person who thinks that accepting everything in life is the solution and that the universe will provide for her. She's intelligent, but not really interested in/capable of expanding her horizon - because of brain fog, I think. And she says of herself that she's "lacking in brain cells" for questioning things and that she can't concentrate on or read "difficult stuff", but admits that she also doesn't care. It makes me sad that people can be so disregarding of what's going on in the world and inside their own bodies. But I suppose I'll just have to let her live her life, even if it hurts me to know that she could feel so much better and solve so many problems.
I'm trying to associate your response above with your earlier remark "she's been working in the medical field for 20+ years and is totally against mainstream medicine".
Is she a dietetician ?
This reminds me of what David Ray Griffin has called "cognitive dissonance", where people cannot bring themselves to question a belief they have assumed all their life to be true and have grown dependent on it.
Durey said:And then he talked to me as if I were a stupid child - which he's never done before. He said that it's dangerous to rely on information from the internet and that a doctor could tell me better what to eat and what to do. And that reading all that stuff just makes me worry more and probably about nothing. (He doesn't seem to believe me that I don't worry because of all I read - quite the contrary - but that I just feel like crap almost all the time.) He didn't even care that I read books and articles by actual scientists and not just looked up symptoms on WebMD or something. My heart was beating so fast I could hardly talk.
Looks like you have a chosen an "authoritarian" boyfriend type.
I believe you should stop trying to implicate him in your health decisions, since he obviously believes alternative therapies are all scams.
Health comes first, above anything else ( besides of course surviving).