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There is a case of a man who was going to die of cancer and he determined to recover by using humor--anything that made him laugh. It worked, and he recovered.
This, however obliquely, implies that those who end up dying of cancer were not 'determined enough to recover.' If only they employed the laughing cure.
There are correlations to positive attitudes and stronger immune systems.
Cancer is not an immune disorder.
It doesn't mean you will outlive cancer/disease but it can prolong the battle. Laughing contributes to a positive attitude.
This implies that if a cancer patient does not have a positive enough attitude then they are contributing to a having shorter life. If only he could see the glass as half full instead of half empty, darn him, he could have seen his grandchildren.
I'm sorry, but I've had many of my patients die horrible deaths from cancer this past year, and I find such statements, especially the first I quoted, offensive.
Look, I am not 'against' alternatives modalities to recovering from illness -physical or mental- but what bothers me is the over-simplifying of extraordinarily complex issues, and then taking their potential efficacy to such extremes, citing isolated examples.
No one here dares say that, for example, lithium is a cure-all for bipolar disorder and anyone who does not try it is not making enough of an effort to treat their disorder. But I've seen that when alternative modalities are offered as the be all and end all, this is not questioned so much -perhaps a politically correct thing, I really don't know, but I don't get it.
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