Food (what I'm cooking) as a battleground

Maybe some of you remember my friend "Amy" who is a refuser. She is the person addressed in my "abridged letter to a refuser" which is in the thread of old EP ILIASM posts.

Well, if you remember her - you probably will not be surprised to learn that she's weird about food and especially weird about medical stuff.

Her primary care physician is actually a chiropractor, and I suspect he's a crook, because Amy thinks he can know the feelings of people he's never even met who live 200 miles away.

She refuses absolutely to use mainstream medicine. She takes occasional teaspoons of some stuff in a bottle that looked like plain water to me. She has never had her 11 year old son vaccinated.

In terms of mental health care, she won't take the more modern SSRI antidepressants. And she will not even consider cognitive-behavioral therapy for talk therapy. CBT was the best thing in the world for me. I know not every mode of therapy is right for every person; but knowing Amy, I think she doesn't like CBT because she would have to rethink almost everything she believes. And that is the one thing that scares her to death.

Yeah, she has a lot of problems. I am no longer in touch with her nearly as much or as closely as I used to be - and I prefer it this way.