With our societal move away from religion, we lost (what I think is) the useful metaphor of demons to explain some behaviours and frankly, it is my theory that demons and ideas are akin to viruses : they come, take ahold of who they can, thrive where they can, to take everything they can until they can't.
From the short post you shared, your daughter seems, for a lack of better words, possessed by this terrible terrible idea. Sadly, I have no idea (!) why some ideas stick to some whereas other won't attract ideas even close. But yeah, you are right, one should never consider their own thoughts to be absolutely true.
Sorry that you got this lesson is such a hurtful format. Hope your daughter gets better.
>With our societal move away from religion, we lost (what I think is) the useful metaphor of demons to explain some behaviours
What we lost with religion is the belief in literal demons controlling people as an explanation for human behavior. Demons as metaphor is not a religious concept per se, and such metaphors still exist within secular society.
Whilst I'm not religious, there's a definite sense that my daughter is 'possessed' by this idea. Not necessarily like demonic possession but almost like a slave to this idea as her master.
She is a chattel to what started as an idea but has grown into an entity to be obeyed.
From the short post you shared, your daughter seems, for a lack of better words, possessed by this terrible terrible idea. Sadly, I have no idea (!) why some ideas stick to some whereas other won't attract ideas even close. But yeah, you are right, one should never consider their own thoughts to be absolutely true.
Sorry that you got this lesson is such a hurtful format. Hope your daughter gets better.