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I think it is human nature to try to be helpful and to think we know more than we do. I see it with my family who tries to help me with caring for my wife's Alzheimer's. "Well did you do this, maybe that will work, have you seen a neurologist." I got frustrated at first but then just accepted that they are trying to be helpful. We tend to be problem solvers even when we aren't good at it. Outright denying an issue is very frustrating and insensitive for sure. I think most people want to be helpful, we just don't know how to do it very well.
Comment by [deleted] at 02/12/2024 at 16:39 UTC
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People have a really hard time accepting that modern medicine has little or no control over horrifying conditions. It brings up the possibility that they may face the same thing or something similar in their future and it scares them at a subconscious level.