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> (maybe you should tell someone who has pancreatic cancer "Oh it's all in your belly") Well... isn't it? I actually phrased it as "it's all in your head" to
by emilburzo 10y ago
> (maybe you should tell someone who has pancreatic cancer "Oh it's all in your belly")
Well... isn't it?
I actually phrased it as "it's all in your head" to highlight that you _can_ do something about it, unlike cancer, it's something you can control by power of mind/will (not saying it's easy).
- formerly burned out.
- qntty 10y agoThe fact that something is "all in your head" doesn't imply much about how much control you might have over it. Schizophrenia is "all in your head." Some people do have a reasonable amount of control over the situation, but many people have little control.
- 0xcde4c3db 10y ago> The fact that something is "all in your head" doesn't imply much about how much control you might have over it. Schizophrenia is "all in your head." So is a brain tumor or glaucoma, in a literal sense, but I doubt many people would seriously use the expression "all in your head" for any of those. In my experience it's overwhelmingly used for anxiety and depression, with the implication being that there's no hard physical problem and that you just need to change your habits/attitude/beliefs (which, incidentally, is an approach that is notably ineffective for schizophrenia, apart from being done with others as a harm reduction mechanism).