You don’t want to believe, do you, that you are responsible for the state of your health? Most people don’t. It is far easier, far more consoling to shift the burden of blame to an outside source, any outside source. It preserves the ego, and provides the "satisfaction" of being a martyred victim of circumstance. It usually earns a pleasing measure of sympathy, a commodity in which most of us secretly revel, and some of us, not too secretly.
You don’t want to believe, do you, that you are responsible for the state of your health? Most people don’t. It is far easier, far more consoling to shift the burden of blame to an outside source, any outside source. It preserves the ego, and provides the "satisfaction" of being a martyred victim of circumstance. It usually earns a pleasing measure of sympathy, a commodity in which most of us secretly revel, and some of us, not too secretly.