Reply #3: One thing you have to remember [View All]

is that we have dealt with hundreds and hundreds of incidents like this. It all becomes old hat, which is one reason for us to take each case a little more seriously.

The other thing is that when someone posts something like that, half the time it's just someone trying to spread their pet treatment, rather than a person who actually was seeking it out.

And if it makes you feel better, I doubt the poster was laughing at you, per se. There's nothing hilarious about mental health, or getting conned. It may have been that your response was in one of the major lines of woo rebuttal (other ways of knowing, you're close minded, but my aunt says... etc). Or, perhaps he was simply an ass ;)

Either way, welcome to the group. Often, recovering woos make the best skeptics, because they've been "on the inside," and have a better understanding of how woos think. And just to be clear, I don't mean "recovering woo" as an insult. You believed something wooish, but finally came around. That's the whole POINT of our movement, to help people change their viewpoints.

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