Any doctor recommending The Secret and its pseudoscientific nonsense?
Yea well, thats bootlicking at best.
Theres self gratitude, self-compassion, and then theres passive, agency-annihilating fealty.
"In 2009, Barbara Ehrenreich published Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America as a reaction to self-help books such as The Secret, claiming that they promote political complacency and a failure to engage with reality."
#MentalHealth
Hannu Ikonen, MD /
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