You might propose a compromise. You don’t get any injections but are willing to take sugar pills in high enough concentration so that they are practically inert.
Afterwards, the treatments won’t have any effect on you, so it’s okay to take them to allow your mother to express her care for you.
Don’t attach your identity to beliefs about things that don’t really matter.
I predict I would trap myself by hinting that I believe homeopathy and simply am afraid of injections (I’m not, but I take no pleasure either). Don’t you think so?
You don’t need to say that you believe in homeopathy. You can just say: “Hey, Mother you want me to take homeopathy supplements and I’m willing to do that for you even so I don’t believe in them, if they don’t come in the form of injections. Do we have a deal?”
Yeah, I suppose this is the only way. I wish I could save her the money and emotional attachment, but I see no way to do it and every time I try, we just end up fighting.
People spent a lot of money on signal various qualities and feel good about it. It’s generally a good heuristic in life to allow other people to go through that process if it works for them emotionally instead of fighting them with both sides ending up feeling bad.
You are trapped either way, this might be a way to minimize damage. If you can’t avoid the nonsense, maybe you could at least avoid the painful nonsense.
I don’t know exactly what you mean by the term ‘injections’ but I am afraid of that - in that:
I believe that injecting anything (even water) into your veins can kill you
Injecting stuff in other places...sounds like a horrible idea.
I’ve had vaccines that were painful because...they were injections.
From what I’ve heard about homeopathy some of it is actively harmful. (If I was in your shows, I would be worried about a) dying, b) things going badly, not getting medical treatment, c) things going badly getting ‘treatment’ that makes things worse etc.
Hm, there’s the classic injection in your butt (widely used in medicine), there are local injections near knees / neck / elbows / spinal cord (sometimes you need the stuff close to the problem). Afaik homeopathy is not administered to veins. That’s about all I can think of / witnessed myself.
You might propose a compromise. You don’t get any injections but are willing to take sugar pills in high enough concentration so that they are practically inert.
Afterwards, the treatments won’t have any effect on you, so it’s okay to take them to allow your mother to express her care for you.
Don’t attach your identity to beliefs about things that don’t really matter.
I predict I would trap myself by hinting that I believe homeopathy and simply am afraid of injections (I’m not, but I take no pleasure either). Don’t you think so?
You don’t need to say that you believe in homeopathy. You can just say: “Hey, Mother you want me to take homeopathy supplements and I’m willing to do that for you even so I don’t believe in them, if they don’t come in the form of injections. Do we have a deal?”
Yeah, I suppose this is the only way. I wish I could save her the money and emotional attachment, but I see no way to do it and every time I try, we just end up fighting.
People spent a lot of money on signal various qualities and feel good about it. It’s generally a good heuristic in life to allow other people to go through that process if it works for them emotionally instead of fighting them with both sides ending up feeling bad.
You are trapped either way, this might be a way to minimize damage. If you can’t avoid the nonsense, maybe you could at least avoid the painful nonsense.
I don’t know exactly what you mean by the term ‘injections’ but I am afraid of that - in that:
I believe that injecting anything (even water) into your veins can kill you
Injecting stuff in other places...sounds like a horrible idea.
I’ve had vaccines that were painful because...they were injections.
From what I’ve heard about homeopathy some of it is actively harmful. (If I was in your shows, I would be worried about a) dying, b) things going badly, not getting medical treatment, c) things going badly getting ‘treatment’ that makes things worse etc.
Hm, there’s the classic injection in your butt (widely used in medicine), there are local injections near knees / neck / elbows / spinal cord (sometimes you need the stuff close to the problem). Afaik homeopathy is not administered to veins. That’s about all I can think of / witnessed myself.