Look: for every problem in the world (and in your city, and in your neighborhood, and in your family), there are people who just don’t want to hear it. They’re

Look: for every problem in the world (and in your city, and in your neighborhood, and in your family), there are people who just don’t want to hear it. They’re generally not the same people from problem to problem, but there’s always a bunch of them. They have their own problems, their own hangups, their own way of seeing the world, etc. They have a thousand totally personal and idiosyncratic reasons. And the easier it is to dismiss the problem, the more staunchly they’ll do so. It just so happens that autonomic body issues and subjectively assessed complaints are very easy to dismiss because they’re really nebulous and sometimes genuinely psychogenic or iatrogenic. So the people who just don’t want to deal with this problem right now have a really easy time taking a pass on it. That’s the way it’s gone for hundreds of years and will go for hundreds more. Getting yourself caught up in frustration or confusion over those people isn’t going to do you a lot of good. If you care about this problem, help people who are suffering from it or work with other people who care about with you. Don’t worry about the people who don’t. They’re not going anywhere.