rvallee
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Imaginary dialogues are a core feature of psychosomatic ideology. This is just an expansion.
Early Wessely was pretty big on this, crafted all those imaginary internal dialogues that none of us have, things no one ever said to them. Not because those scenarios are real, simply because they are necessary to their models. Those dialogues are ridiculous, but to someone who is primed to believe them, they sound convincing. Doesn't matter that they're total fiction, that's not relevant.
Exact same thing as what they did with deconditioning, which Wessely was pretty big on. They make up those scenarios of being bed-bound for weeks with severe illness, leaving us weak as newborn lambs. It doesn't matter that the vast majority had no such thing, or that most people recover from that without much fuss.
They simply consider that it proves their point since if the illness was just mild, then it can't be significant, and thus simply something patients latch on as some trigger event. To "save face", as Wessely loves to put it. Long Covid completely debunked this, but the harm has been done and there is too much resistance against the implications of admitting it was always a bunch of cheap bullshit.
None of is comes organically out of things patients tell them. They invent those things in roughly the same process as colonizers would describe the people in some faraway land as brutal savages because x, y and z. Anything that's different from their own culture, basically. Doesn't matter that it's contrived and far-fetched, they're nothing but rationalizations for their own choices and behaviour. All of which they then project onto us, simply because, like colonizers with a massive technological advantage, they can easily get away with it.