In a similar vein,
thinking you're 'fat' and 'revolting' and starving yourself because of it, just because you want to be skinny, is trivial in comparison to the actual suffering experienced by someone who was abused as a child. They're the ones with something real to worry about, while the anorexic should just shut up and eat more.

Don't belittle anyone's suffering. Not understanding it is one thing; making it out to be trivial because there's worse things is quite another.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 12:57, 1 reply)

Fair enough
But I do kind of feel that way about anorexia too - likewise I believe fatness can be cured through cake eating-avoidance.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:09, closed)

It seems you're forgetting two things about the mind:
1. Our minds notice (or even make up) patterns very easily.
2. The mind is generally quite lazy.

When some people experience fear/anxiety for no real reason, they want to return to feeling comfortable as quickly as possible (so they won't think logically like you have, because it takes too much time).
So their mind will identify patterns of behaviour that it believes 'led' them to this fear/anxiety, no matter how arbitrary.
(tarbin tarbis, tarbit, tarbamus, tarbimus, tarbant, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:42, closed)

This
would appear to be the most acceptable answer I've been given so far.

Thank you.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:45, closed)

No probs fella
Glad I could shed some light!
(tarbin tarbis, tarbit, tarbamus, tarbimus, tarbant, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 19:24, closed)