Listen, as someone with bonafide degrees and qualifications in alternative health therapies and mystic woo, if anyone on this damn hellsite tells you they can cure you’re disease/pain with magic crystals and “just eat charcoal, it pulls all the bad stuff out your body (:” I want you to know they are a lying mcfuckstick and you deserve better.
I’ve been doing alternative therapies, fully qualified, for nearly 15 years. And I’d never in my wildest dreams have the arrogance to claim such a thing. Alternative therapies are there to help and many people, myself included, find great relief from them. But speaking as someone with a chronic condition and several fully certified qualifications in this shit, we cannot cure you with crystals. We cannot cure you with yoga, or spells, or veganism or essential oils. Those things might help, and they might help substantially in helping you to take better care of yourself. I know crystal therapy always leaves me feeling great.
But helping people to heal also means finding them the help you cannot give, and the support they need to see it through. Holding someone captive to false hope that only serves to line your own pocket is the work of a charlatan and anyone that claims selling you a spelled amethyst for $75 will Cure You, isn’t being honest. They are in fact being the opposite of that, and are either ignorantly deluded or maliciously misleading.
Both are harmful, but one is morally reprehensible, and I’ll hold no truck with it. And if you come at me again trying to play some power move like “well obviously you’re not a truly ~gifted healer~ like I am” (really…Really??? that’s the game you’re trying to play? lol okay) I will personally take your ego to hand and ram it where the sun does not shine.
Do not prey on the weak, do not trick those in need of help. What the fuck is wrong with you.
I love this post because while I’m not as qualified as the op I live in these circles and with the scary diagnosis’ I’m getting of late I’m terrified to tell some of the people I know about them. It will be my fault and if I don’t take a billion supplements and drink the tea of this one mushroom that grew out of a gnomes ass, it’ll be my fault if I get sicker. Guys I HATE this.
I’m sorry to hear that you are going through some scary health stuff, and also that you have to deal with this kind of know it all ableism. People can suck, even when they mean well.
From one chronically ill spoonie to another, I wish you well and hope you have more good days than bad. And if you ever want someone to offer a verbal smackdown in your corner, (or just someone to talk to) I’m here and 100% ready to fight. Take care <3
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