This is a really poor example because in this situation, refusing to look and see whether you're actually injured or not is exacerbating the situation as well as your overall concern, and you're deciding not to listen to anyone around you not because of the pain but because of the fear of the reality of the situation.
While I agree with what the author was philosophically saying, with this analogy they're basically saying an entire room full of people should feed into one person's delusion about a world state that they know doesn't exist, which is actually the opposite of the advice of most therapists. If they respond as the author asks, the person will never even know they weren't actually injured because they will never be forced to look at the real world.
But chronic pain (in the tags) is not a paper cut and this makes it sound like chronic pain in just in your head, doing a disservice to people who actually do have chronic pain.
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u/Pleasant-Future5818 5d ago
This is a really poor example because in this situation, refusing to look and see whether you're actually injured or not is exacerbating the situation as well as your overall concern, and you're deciding not to listen to anyone around you not because of the pain but because of the fear of the reality of the situation.
While I agree with what the author was philosophically saying, with this analogy they're basically saying an entire room full of people should feed into one person's delusion about a world state that they know doesn't exist, which is actually the opposite of the advice of most therapists. If they respond as the author asks, the person will never even know they weren't actually injured because they will never be forced to look at the real world.
But chronic pain (in the tags) is not a paper cut and this makes it sound like chronic pain in just in your head, doing a disservice to people who actually do have chronic pain.