• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    Also, sometimes magical thinking can be trouble. Like, someone’s excited about how their health issues are going to be cured with the right essential oils. Sometimes you need to burst that bubble so that they will actually get real medical help.

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      12 days ago

      Magical thinking is always trouble. At its most benign it still normalizes other, more insidious falsehoods just by accepting things baselessly.