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Genre: Comedy
Date of upload: Apr 4, 2021 ^^
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As a cancer researcher, I desperately wish these "miracle cures" actually worked. I wish there was a magic bullet for any type of cancer in any type of person. Sadly, cancer is extremely complex, and even cells within the same tumor have different genes. I wish we could just give people baking soda infusions (wtf was that about) and have them be cancer-free. There's so much amazing work being done in the field of oncology right now, but we've still got a ways to go. I look forward to the day where people won't feel like Dr. Charlatan is their only option. That being said, seeing these """doctors""" take advantage of vulnerable people definitely tanked my faith in humanity for a bit. But it's always good to be informed! Thanks munecat uwu
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So weird to hear the stories from DWD. My Mom went to a similar kind of seminar retreat thing in the mid 00s and the same thing happened. This wasn't a TR event, it was a fundamentalist Christian event, so probably something even more extreme than a DWD retreat. Like the same kind of long days, sleep deprivation, unqualified mental health advice, with a healthy dose of praying in tongues, "casting out demons", and conservative rejection of modern psychiatry layered on top.
She had already had previous issues with bipolar disorder, depression, and abuse from her childhood. During the event she wound up not taking her bipolar medication; either through implicit encouragement through sleep deprivation and long days in prayer/seminar where she just forgot to take it or from the staff of the event explicitly telling her she didn't need medication to get better (probably some combination of the two).
In any case she came back in the middle of a full-blown manic episode and psychotic break that lasted for several months, she would tell us she could talk to God, believed she WAS God, could see demons and Satan, was convinced that her father had sexually molested me and my siblings and would make us stay up late at night telling us to "interpret" photos of us and him from years prior in which we were "clearly communicating" that we were being molested through body language, urging us to confess that we we're trying to say this and just didn't know how.
She wound up accusing him of her mistaken belief that he molested all of us during the manic episode and it wound up estranging that entire side of the family from her. What's fucked up is that her father, it turns out, did molest her when she was young, but almost certainly did not molest his grandchildren. So instead of any of this trauma being worked through in therapy in a controlled environment and being resolved in any sort of constructive manner, these people at the seminar basically took my already vulnerable mom, got her to spend several hundred if not thousands of dollars on their retreat, whipped her into a psychotic frenzy, and pried open all of the wounds of her repressed childhood trauma. Then, when they were finished, dumped her back into society as if they had done her a service and "cured her". In essence, it ruined my entire families life, through no fault of my mom's.
I absolutely believe these DWD events have the same capacity to do these kinds of thing to the people that attend there.
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A little late to the comments party, but I want to say thanks for making this. My mum has been a TR disciple for nearly 20 years, and I grew up listening to his CDs inner car. She has attended so many events, and now volunteers for his UPW crew. Honestly, she is sooooo scary when she comes back - mega hyped, screaming, aggressive (not very feminine). I could never explain why I never wanted to go to an event (y'know, besides not having £1000s to spend, enjoying sleep, and not wanting strangers touching me). Thanks for verbalising the suspicions in my brain and giving me evidence. Don't think I can show this to mum though, she's too far down the rabbit hole.
PS LOVE THE MEADOW REPORT!!!!!!!
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As a person with chronic illness, I can attest that a BIG and often overlooked reason why people flock to quackery is the fact that they have conditions that a lot of conventional MDs don't know how to deal with or flat out dismiss. I know so many people (including myself) who have had their PAINFUL symptoms disregarded by doctors who didn't believe them, told "who knows what you have, I don't know what to do so good luck I guess," or who have even been harmed or made worse by treatments that a conventional medical doctor prescribes. Still sick and now distrusting the medical system and not knowing where else to go, they turn to whoever says they can help. Some end up with an actually helpful practitioner and others end up following quack doctors. People with chronic illness are traumatized from not receiving adequate treatment in a system that can't always understand their illness, with doctors that aren't always open minded about symptom patterns that don't match up with what they expect. A lot of people turn to quack docs and conspiracy theories because they have nowhere else to go after they've been forced to basically DIY their health and figure it out for themselves.
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3 years ago
Hello! Someone very rightly pointed out there should actually be a TW for the section about Neil Solomon (SA towards women). Timestamps provided so you can just skip to the next section.
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