I!!! AM GOING TO RESPOND TO THIS!
Some other people in the notes have started calling this post ableist because it makes “the ability to cure anything into something bad” when no no no that’s not the point. This right here, what @lunafluction said, is the point.
Like that is literally no-joke the point.
This is not a post about treating chronic pain or illness or disease or disability (but I would be SO PSYCHED to discuss that), it’s a post about perpetuating and ignoring chronic pain and the psychological effects.
Real world: think about caffeine pills. if you’re in a life-or-death situation popping a couple (more than you should) caffeine pills will save your life, but abusing and over-relying on the medication is a bad thing.
Magical world: instead of pills it’s magic, and instead of you making the choice or being compelled by your situation to make it, you have someone else doing it for you.
The original post, because I was writing a scene where magical healing was being abused, specifically treats the over-use of magic as abuse. That’s because of the headspace I was in and I got a lot of really creepy but thought-provoking vibes from it and wanted to share.
This post literally paints the magical “hand-waving” healer as someone who dismisses the negative effects of their actions by pointing out the immediate positive result. Anyone with Chronic Pain SHOULD IMMEDIATELY GET THE CREEPS FROM THIS because holy shit the side effects of long-term pain medications?? But the immediate situation is horrible too?? So?? Organ damage in 3 years or inability to walk pick your poison.
Whether the author/artist/whoever who takes this idea and goes with it can decide what the moral lesson or lean will be. For myself and the project that spawned this thought-blerb it wasn’t the healer making the call but the person who was above him in rank and unwilling to listen to “this will absolutely hurt and cause the patient pain and will only MAYBE help them”. My Healer was concerned about his patient and doing what was best for the person who was injured, but what if you just have an abusive, cocky, ‘Holier (and smarter!) Than Thou’ Healer who doesn’t give a crap as long as no one is technically dead at the end of the fight?
This post was very much aimed at combat-heavy, sudden-violent-encounter video-game magic/damage/healing situations. You’re healing eviscerated torsos, sticking limbs back on people, manhandling bones back into place and then slap-dashing the spell to make the bone not-be-broken anymore. Because the trauma is so IMMEDIATE a lot of people will go ahead and take the risk because "crooked leg” is better than “no leg”.
This post is about asking who is it that a professional adventurer/fighter goes to, who they can talk to, how they can even open up about, the difficulties of having that crooked leg. The hollow feeling of being used and told to suck it up and keep doing what you do even if your body hurts even if your body is no longer “injured”.
This post is about chronic pain and how magic or no magic you can’t just ‘hand-wave’ away the trauma of physical, emotional, or psychological injury.
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