Sun gazing and bizzarre 'health' rituals

[McMullen]

But on the other hand, modern medicine is notorious for marginalizing or outright dismissing many symptoms as psychological. That isn't their fault, obviously, the system is just not set up to give everyone intensive psychological care for their little mood swings.

Is it? I don't doubt that it happens occasionally, but usually when you hear that meme, it's coming from people trying to sell or promote alternative medicine. I'd like to know just how deserved that notoriety is, or if it's no more justified than how gamers are notorious for shooting up schools.

Obviously it varies from country to country. Here in Germany for example we have socialized medicine, so doctors don't profit much from keeping people around. So whenever you turn up at a doctor with some vague symptoms that he can't diagnose immediately (say for example headache), he'll tell you to go home and eat a banana until more serious symptoms show up.

Then again, in a system where doctors profit from feigning to know what is wrong with you, like the American health system, you'll probably get prescriptions much faster, though it's questionable weather those will do more harm than good.

So at least for my little corner of the world this complaint is valid, since doctors here tend to treat serious illnesses only and have a high tolerance for little things that can make an individual's life bothersome.

I'm an American. I've seen the doctor twice this year, and both times they advised me to delay getting prescriptions and see if conditions improved on their own, which they did.

I think you may have been given the wrong impression about our health system.

 

[Pinkamena]

As far as eye strain goes, 5 seconds at a mostly hidden sun sounds alot less harmful then the 10+ hours a day spent on monitors.

Watching a sunset is definitely less damaging than looking at the sun when it's in the sky. When it's right above the horizon, most of the UV light has been scattered. LCD monitors doesn't emit any UV light though, so not sure of it's damaging in that sense.