Hello everyone!
I've been following your insightful discussions for quite a while now and I really enjoyed it, but our beloved Rachel has made me so furious lately so I also need to put in my own to cents now lol. I was so happy when I found you all, initially I thought no one ever questions what she does. Her followers are just so vocal
I don't even know where to start. Rachel rly makes me *furious*. I shouldn't care so much but I feel like she really is a danger to her followers. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and everyone is entitled to live their lives just as they please.
BUT you do have a big responsibility when 1.9M people follow you.
I cannot put into words how much I despise her for giving out "medical advice". If you live by your own made-up medicinal rules (which I'm still not loving) - fine. But you should be sane enough to understand that sharing that "advice" could potentially endanger people's lives.
Man, sharing is already so reckless but she even shames people for not following or questioning her opinion
it's despicable. How can one be so delusional. I don't understand how her follower count doesn't drop any faster, I reckon plenty of her followers are parents themselves and I would honestly feel so insulted by her acting like a know it all. She doesn't have any grace or humbleness whatsoever. Also her lack of gratefulness is repulsive.
However, I somehow think that she knows (deep within her) that she doesn't know anything about medicine or health really, but I think she really enjoys having the power to just make up her own facts, share them and make them "become true" by being extra vocal about them, if you know what I mean.
On the other hand she keeps contradicting herself.
She's looney tunes and I do think she's got a psychiatric disorder.
I also agree with the person on top that suggested that she's still very anxious and in denial. I also think she's so, so deeply anxious and afraid and unstable that she can't cope with any doubts or worries from the outside (ie medical professionals). I read through one (the one and only lol) of her podcast transcripts where she talked about her pregnancy and she said something along the lines of not wanting anyone to find a medical issue she has to think about and not wanting to have to take the appropriate steps regarding that issue.
Schrodinger's disease lol.
I hate that she labels health care as sick care - I get where she comes from but especially pediatrics and gynecology are soo focused on prevention. Like there are plenty of congenital diseases such as heart defects or just "simple" conditions like congenital hypothyroidism. Babies get screened for these conditions right after birth and eg hypothyroidism can be treated sooo very easily. But if left untreated it does irreversible damage to the baby's brain quite fast. I cannot comprehend how you can put the lives of your own children on the line like that. Looney tunes
Also her sitz bath topic: I'm sorry but how can you sense if one might get infected
I just can't with her. If you could sense that there wouldn't be any infections ever lol
What also rubs me the wrong way is the way she refers to Finneas as Sun. She acts like a king/god was born, it's just an innocent infant ffs. I almost puked when she said she calls him squeeky (?) now because he didn't cry when he was sick because he's such a gentle soul! He probably didn't cry cause he couldn't breath!!!
@TheSheep I get the urge to make someone dig deeper into her grifting but I'm also thinking it might be best if she doesn't get more attention and views. I think even negative press benefits her in the end and I just hope people forget her real soon. Curious about your thoughts
Alright, that's all for now
Sorry for that massive unstructured rant guys
