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May 11, 2013, 07:54 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by genetic
Well, I'm rather pleased that at least one man was saved from cancer and that he
resolved to work at his mental condition by including humor in his life and wrote a book about it. That's positive and that's important.
That isn't to say that many, many people don't die with cancer; anyone with common sense is alert to the dangers and seriousness of malignancy.
It doesn't imply anything other than that one man was able to return to health because he managed to do the right things to help himself. It is possible to read
any and everything into something that is being written. Some Bipolar patients are often known to see "black and white" reasoning in everything.
Some of us try so hard to qualify things by saying "it works for some of us" or "you
might want to try it". I simply do not deal well with the all-or-nothing thought process; it's offensive to me;forget it, for me, anyway.
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Part of my issue with some of these posts is precisely the over-simplification of very complex issues, quite the contrary of black and white thinking (which is not a characteristic of bipolar disorder).
I would be very happy to read the literature on the treatments you have suggested now and in the past and I believe I've asked if you could provide links, but so far I haven't see any. I am very interested in reading about these things.
For example, can you please share the title of the book of the man who was cured of cancer by laughing? I am interested in knowing, for example, what kind of cancer he had, in what stage he was, what other treatments he received, and what he did exactly as far as laughing, as this could involve all kinds of things, amongst other things. This is the kind of information that gives one the opportunity to see the whole picture and decide for themselves what they choose to believe, instead of being expected to not be the least skeptical -without more information- that there is a laughing cure for cancer, even if only for one person.
I work with very sick people. I take this very seriously. I think if you told one of my patients that someone else with cancer was cured by laughing and they should try it too, and that 'it was the right thing to do' [see below] you would likely get a lot of skepticism, if not far worse.
one man was able to return to health because he managed to do the right things to help himself.
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