I was sitting in my university’s health services waiting room, watching CP24 news because that’s what was on TV, and because, well, Toronto. The “Health” segment came on, and somehow I knew, I just knew it was going to be filled with alternative medicine bullshit.
But I was not prepared to see a 5-minute long segment of people talking about how great homeopathy is.
I literally facepalmed in the waiting room. Finally, my therapist showed up and saved me from the misery of watching that garbage being spread to the world.
She looked at me closely as I sat down on the Shrink Couch. “You look… full of rage, Amy-Jean,” she said.
I ranted at her for much longer than I should have about why homeopathy is absolutely retarded and why I am so angry that it’s been approved by Health Canada and how irritating it is that things are on the NEWS telling people to go out and try something that works just as well as a placebo.
She just sort of stared at me when I was done. “Do you feel better after telling me about it?” she asked.
“No,” I said. “I have to go home and blog about it.”
Blogging: better therapy than actual therapy.
I hate the university health center. I always feel like I’m being judged going in there, like if someone sees me going in there it probably means I’m a huge whore with full blown stds…
I only go there for the cheap optometrist though. Good deal.
On a related note, I know someone who had cancer and tried homeopathy for it. Didn’t end very well… but I can’t imagine how tough Chemo must be.
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oh NO! For cancer? You know someone who took a placebo for cancer? That is so bad. That is precisely why homeopathy makes the so angry: people who need serious medical attention don’t know the facts and natural medicine *sounds* nicer. At least chemo, you know, has been proven to not let people die.
I used to hate the health center because you have to go through a separate door marked “counseling” for therapy, so as soon as I left the waiting room everyone there knew I was a crazy person, but I have stopped caring at this point.