[fullmoon]

> For example, if all of your best friends agree on one thing, and you’re like, yeah, they just don’t get it: you’re in denial.

That is dangerously close to woo, but is a good example on the lack of rigor in the field.

Of course, any true believer disagreeing with me will can now just point towards me being in denial.

[bardan]

Yeah this is what bothers me. Any argument that has an innate, automatic means of dismissing criticism is innately worth dismissing automatically.

[H8crilA]

The article is exaggerating to make a point. It is usually, or almost always, true that people around you know more about what you should do in such situations than you do.

[trabant00]

That quote bothered me the most out of the entire article. It's indoctrination 101 - if you don't believe/agree there is something wrong with you.