It doesn’t seem like you meant poorly, but for this disease in particular, this is not helpful advice at all.
In advance, I apologize if any of this sounds irate. I just wish to provide helpful information and context considering how few results pop up on this forum for endo. The advice in your post is nothing new to someone who has this, and again, I don’t think you meant any ill, but the advice also has dangerous consequences to someone else who might have it and read it and think that the problem is sourced in their head.
This disease has a notoriously long diagnostic delay, often coupled with misdiagnoses for mental disorders or other psychological problems. Some spend decades trying to fix these problems and they don’t help whatsoever.
So while someone is wasting time trying to fix fictional mental problems, their body is destroying itself in ways they have no capacity of understanding or fighting back against. Very few doctors are educated on this disease either, which is how you get scenarios like in the OP where someone had liver damage so severe her life is at stake.
Or me, who has heart problems in my late 20s due to severe intestinal damage that puts me on par with a heavy drinker or hard drug user.
I can’t speak for all regions in the world, but I was often told that what I was experiencing was normal or that it was psychological. Many went so far as to call it “Eve’s Curse.”
I want to focus on that last bit for a second because as someone who’s practiced magick for just about 30 years now, it is insanely difficult to fight back against a societal curse.
From an early age I even had a spirit tell me that I would not be able to have children if a problem went unchecked. My astrology chart also shows signs of what my true health issues are. Despite having magickal knowledge of some sort, I was never, not once in decades, able to get any doctor to take this seriously. Of course I would not tell them about the magickal aspect, but I would insist that the problem existed in my reproductive system, not in my head.
No one listened.
This is what happens when a lot of people in a society are simultaneously cursing someone or merely influencing them with their personal beliefs. I don’t believe in stories from the bible, but plenty of other people do and that has a substantial effect in the world and the people who live in it. Plenty of other cultures don’t use the bible but have other similar myths essentially functioning in the same way.
A facet of what “Eve’s Curse” looks like:
1 in 10 women have endo.
Half of them have stage 3 and 4.
Half become infertile.
Many will go much of their lives in excruciating physical pain while others perpetually tell them that they are crazy, that it’s stress, anxiety, or psychological (as the post I’m replying to claims it to be).
When someone does finally find out what’s wrong, resources to obtain help are absurdly limited considering how common this is.
Magick has done all sorts of things to help me with this. It’s kept my head up (mostly), it’s reduced pain to some extent, it’s kept me on life support for the past several years too.
It’s been absurdly difficult to break through “Eve’s Curse” though. It’s even harder when that “curse” is most likely due to genetic factors above all else.
Sorry if this got long and if I sound mad. I do think magick can help to some extent, especially when there are no other options available, but it cannot fix this disease entirely. Suggesting otherwise is just another form of telling someone to pray it away.
