like the brain is literally encased in the body so how can it be separate? like if you go around licking lamp posts you’re going to pick up some germ that’s gonna make you feel like crap and you get insomnia or fever and your brain will definitely be impacted. and so you’ll have short temper and that’ll get you into trouble.
Okay, I think I understand now.
That’s understandable in that situation but as someone that wasn’t in that situation I was just really slow to understand what you meant.
And it’s not like the mind doesn’t have power over the body (at the very least good / bad spirits make pain easier / harder to deal with) but yeah… some of the sayings people throw out are just shitty. And it does get more insidious. I’m only guessing at your situation but know of people with cancer where people would say things like “I don’t think they have the mental strength to survive this”.
It sounds like a difficult situation to be in. Are you still in it, or have you at least found a way to avoid the frustration and confusion of their comments?