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by serf 2396 days ago
>You don’t mention any kind of inquiry but you go out of your way to tell me that I shouldn’t be saying anything?

People do that because they hope to god that folks with a psychosis (or to use your other example, cancer) aren't trying to cure themselves by changing to a keto diet, unsupervised, and without the aid of a professional.

Here's the problem : You're reinforcing the uselessness of professional medical care ("they ignored me and did nothing!") while reinforcing the positive idea of being able to 'cure' yourself with diet (a 'cure' that is only sometimes sustainable, and results in a rash, you say.), and spinning the act of rejecting prescribed drugs for your ailment as positive.

No part of you thinks that it is irresponsible to tell potential psychotics to cure themselves with diet and reject their drugs, since the professionals ignored your pleas?

It's irresponsible to offer up unproven 'cures', especially to a group of people, the psychotic, that may have an already tenuous grasp on reality as it is -- if there ever was a group of people that should have someone supervising their self-medical-experimentation, it's the psychotic.

I appreciate your enthusiasm for a treatment that helped you. I implore you to consider that such things are highly specific, and that medical professionals, often times at the expense of seeming aloof, are often 'looking at the forest, not the trees" with regards to your care. Many are unwilling to explore experimental treatments until the (long) list of exhaustive known procedures for your ailment has been checked through.