Some health care practitioners promise too much. They speak beyond what they can honestly speak about.
I haven’t noticed this with mainstream doctors or specialists, but I encounter it relatively often in the alternative world.
They say: “Do this and you’ll get much better” or “you’ll get completely well again”.
And my experience, so far, is that I follow their instructions and nothing happens or there is only a slight and temporary change.
Why do they promise too much?
It may be they see it as “medicine” to encourage a sense of optimism.
In reality, what happens may be that we get our hopes up, get disappointed, and feel tricked or deceived. At least, that’s what happened with me until I got used to this pattern and learned to anticipate it, and also learned to avoid practitioners who use this kind of language.
I much prefer practitioners who take a sober and honest approach. They may say: “Some people with your condition got better after doing this”. Or even better: “Let’s try and see what happens.”
Personally, I am much more inclined to trust practitioners who take a sober and grounded approach. They show that they are able to stay close to reality. And they don’t engage in trickery encouraging false hope.