Growing up in a religous household definetly has a large impact on my view on illness and dying. my parents are very conventional so they do believe in going to the doctor and other allopathic medicne, however they may believe in it too much. my mom is very over protective and so everytime i get even the slightest fever or just a plain headache she wants to take me to the emergency room. she believes doctors can fix anything and that holistic medicine is not a reliable or even an intelligent way of healing people.my father is very similar he believes that holistic medicine is just anther way for people to get money out of you especially chiropractors.
My parents opinions are very common and are the dominant culture perspectives. I grew up with these ideas and so my opinions are very similar to theirs. Although i do have the same ideas as my parents and those ideas are similar to the dominant culture perspectives my own opinions are a bit more based on what the dominant culture perspective is.The reasons in which i believe allopathic medicines better than hollistic medicine is because it has been proven to be more effective in healing different sickness however it is mostly because it is the dominant culture perspective which is what i believe to be logical. my parents also raised me to think that the right answer is the one that works the best and the quickest. my idea of a happy life is one where i am happy and to achieve that ideal life getting illness and dying has to be a very small part of it and allopathic medicine help conribute to that.
My father was raised in egypt so illness and dying wasn't dicussed very much in his family. he told me that his mother also believed in fixing a problem quickly. although she would go to the doctor (allopathic) any time my father was sick she would also pray for him (hollistic) so she was a follower of intergrative medicine. although she did believe in intergrated medicine she would always do what the doctor told her. my grandmother assumed that because the doctor is the doctor his opinions/ reccomendations were always the right ones. This influenced my dad to think this way which then influenced me to think this way until up to 7 or so years ago. when i was 8 my doctor told me that this constant pain in my stomach was simply a stomach flu nothing to be conerned with, however it turned out to be appendisits a illness that may have killed me. the doctors diagnosis was wrong. now im not saying to never believe your doctor but to always take what they and other people say with a grain of salt. Question what you are being told and find an alternative view point because that alternative view point may just be the right one.
This is an amazing story. It is written wonderfully and it uses great writing techniques to thoroughly express the deeper meaning of this text. You also restated it in you last sentence, which just adds to the clarity. Hearing a story like this has helped to change my opinion on illness and death, and im sure it can change many others point of view. I think that it is fantastic that you look for alternatives even in places where you dont think you can find any. The overall writing piece was very well written and very insightful.
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