Esoteric logic can invert institutional language into a self-fulfilling illness narrative

Evidence

“When you go to a hospital (in German “Krankenhaus” literally translated means “house of the sick”), the very word tells you that you must be sick in that place. You’re creating a resonance in the universe that creates illness in the first place. That’s why diagnoses are harmful. They make you sick because they tell you that you are sick.” By the way, using this logic, one client cancelled her health insurance (in German “sick insurance”) because it would signal to the universe that she was afraid for her health. The universe – seemingly endowed with a simple mind – would then promptly deliver exactly what one fears: Illness. Canceling the insurance would instead signal to the universe how confident the person was in remaining invulnerable and healthy. Impressed by this act of self-confidence, the universe would then deliver to one exactly what was ordered. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 608

Categorization

• CANDY: The health insurance cancellation because the German word for insurance (Versicherung) signals fear to the universe is a delightfully absurd, self-contained anecdote.
• XREF: connects to: Illness as a psychic state exists primarily as being-for-others — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 920