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It's notable that in order to attempt to refute my story you've had to conjure up a whole lot of hypotheticals. You might consider that over nearly 15 years ex

It's notable that in order to attempt to refute my story you've had to conjure up a whole lot of hypotheticals. You might consider that over nearly 15 years experiencing pain and distress, I've done a bit of research and tried a few different approaches. In fact I've spent at least an hour or two per day for pretty much that entire period, trying various ways of getting well, and learning about ways of doing so. If a new chair was going to make the difference, I would have figured that out by about year 3 or 4 at most. In fact, I've tried every remedy that you can imagine and many that you can't, and read every relevant book, research paper and internet forum post that might possibly be useful. I come from a scientific family and work in a scientific field; I understand logic and reason; my career and health depends on it. I have no incentive to promote or engage in any ineffective remedy; my only incentive has been to become free of pain and illness through whatever means possible, and having now done so I'm happy to share my experiences with others who want to learn from them. For what it's worth your position relies on some assumptions about physiology that I used to accept but no longer do (or more accurately, no longer can). Most importantly this assertion: "your mind is just a function of your physical brain like digestion is the function of your physical gut". I'm not going to try and educate you on this as there is ample material around for you to find if you care to, but you need to examine this assumption in order to properly grasp this topic.

scotty79 8y ago
I conjured some hypotheticals just to illustrate how many possible causes there are. My doubt about cause of your problems being psychological traumas of the past comes from sheer number of possible other causes and from how many times those other causes were actual causes of peoples ailments while psychological factors were suspected. Also slow and partial recovery is suspicious to me. When you find the real cause and remove it, relief is quick and large. My intelectual objection to your train of thought is that you claimed "I checked everything else." Which is false because there's too much of everything. You just seen one correlation after years of seeing none and think that's a causation just because of that. Don't get me wrong I do the same thing. My gf has brain tumors. I give her melatonin every evening just because I've seen some correlation between the times she stopped taking it and started again and how her MRI looked. But I'm telling about it hardly anone because there were too many cases when one thing seemed to work for someone and only after much research it was established that in general it was as stupid idea as it sounded. My belief that mind is just what the brain does doesn't strongly influence my opinion of your claims. This belief comes from reading about various cases of how brain damage shapes the mind. Another thing that makes me sceptical is that after what I lived through with my fragile mind I should be suffering for all host of suspicious ailments. But all my ailments can be traced to specific factors like dry air, allergy, working as a programmer, having fun by playing computer games, genetically shitty joints (as my mum's), caffeine poisoning, genetically prone to migraines, skipping eating and drinking, not sleeping enough, being close to 40, not excersising.
- tomhoward 8y ago
  I'm so sorry to hear about your g/f's tumors. That must be a very difficult experience for you. > Also slow and partial recovery is suspicious to me. When you find the real cause and remove it, relief is quick and large. It's not a single cause. It's thousands of experiences/memories, and they need to be found and processed one by one, usually at a rate of no more than a few per week. That said, some traumas have brought about "quick and large" changes when they've been found; that's how I've known the system was working. But for thorough healing of deeply held traumas and related physiological ailments, it needs consistent work over a long period of time, and gradual improvement is to be expected.

scotty79 8y ago

I conjured some hypotheticals just to illustrate how many possible causes there are. My doubt about cause of your problems being psychological traumas of the past comes from sheer number of possible other causes and from how many times those other causes were actual causes of peoples ailments while psychological factors were suspected. Also slow and partial recovery is suspicious to me. When you find the real cause and remove it, relief is quick and large. My intelectual objection to your train of thought is that you claimed "I checked everything else." Which is false because there's too much of everything. You just seen one correlation after years of seeing none and think that's a causation just because of that. Don't get me wrong I do the same thing. My gf has brain tumors. I give her melatonin every evening just because I've seen some correlation between the times she stopped taking it and started again and how her MRI looked. But I'm telling about it hardly anone because there were too many cases when one thing seemed to work for someone and only after much research it was established that in general it was as stupid idea as it sounded. My belief that mind is just what the brain does doesn't strongly influence my opinion of your claims. This belief comes from reading about various cases of how brain damage shapes the mind. Another thing that makes me sceptical is that after what I lived through with my fragile mind I should be suffering for all host of suspicious ailments. But all my ailments can be traced to specific factors like dry air, allergy, working as a programmer, having fun by playing computer games, genetically shitty joints (as my mum's), caffeine poisoning, genetically prone to migraines, skipping eating and drinking, not sleeping enough, being close to 40, not excersising.

tomhoward 8y ago
I'm so sorry to hear about your g/f's tumors. That must be a very difficult experience for you. > Also slow and partial recovery is suspicious to me. When you find the real cause and remove it, relief is quick and large. It's not a single cause. It's thousands of experiences/memories, and they need to be found and processed one by one, usually at a rate of no more than a few per week. That said, some traumas have brought about "quick and large" changes when they've been found; that's how I've known the system was working. But for thorough healing of deeply held traumas and related physiological ailments, it needs consistent work over a long period of time, and gradual improvement is to be expected.