Oh you have stepped into one of my favorite rant subjects with this post. Here goes!
people are influenced to "love themselves" no matter what condition they are in or what activities they do.
We are told that loving ourselves is the end all be all of happiness, and concurrently told that there could be a zillion things wrong with us (mental illnesses galore, cancer, ibd, heart disease, obesity etc etc etc) and we must be on the lookout for these likely problems at all times. Look for the flaws in yourself, look for the flaws in others, look for the flaws in your children, your pets, your finances, your motivations. Ask professionals to look for the flwas in you. There are lots of instruction manuals to find mental illness flaws, so that we are now all lay diagnosticians regarding mental differences.
If looking for flaws, you will find flaws, sometimes creating them just by looking for them. You will be encouraged, and in some cases, forced, to fix those flaws. This all feeds us relentlessly into the medical system, forcing us to consume medical products.
Health should be the norm. As it is, healthy people are few and far between. What is causing this, if all of us are seeking medical care every few months, as told to do?
It's absurd. Modern psychiatric and medical "care" is largely to blame for our ill health, obesity included.
The best thing we can all do for our health is to stay away from medical services, if you can. Sometimes that is a hard call to make, sometimes it's easy.
I think that you are right and also potentially wrong. You are right now, because the medical services are geared towards generating profit, not wellbeing. But, if there was some kind of utopia where health was the focus instead, perhaps medical services would do a good job. Obviously, this is not going to happen in an economy anything like what we have now though, as the incentives are all out of whack.
I do mean now, yes. I think even just a dozen years ago I would have said something very different, but recently the medical industry has gone too far into one-size-fits-all, and anyone who is not that "size" will be ill-treated. They no longer tailor care to the person in front of them, but rather to the dictates of the insurance companies.
No really, I do. The ACA, Obama Care, made that "care" far worse. I don't know how that affected care in Finland. Have you seen a difference of late?
If I go to doctors, I like them to be OLD. The old ones think differently. Actually, the younger ones, for the most part, don't even think.