I feel like I keep noticing LGAT ideology in everyday life and it is becoming unbearable. People are quick to criticize self-help cults like Landmaark and Scientology for their deceptive recruitment tactics and overt coercion but they will then turn around and tout their ideology - the idea that you are responsible for whatever happens, that victimhood doesn’t exist, that you can think your way out of distress/disability/mental illness and that you need to take personal responsibility for your health. The worst part of the LGAT to me wasn’t its recruitment tactics but this very ideology. As a disabled person it is so incredibly harmful to be told that if I “just do _____” (including medical treatment), then I will be cured. I don’t know how to get away from this. Does anyone else struggle with this ideology?
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