@tvad Thank you.
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@oldhvymec Thanks for that story. It’s just impossible to accurately imagine how much suffering people go through in this world. No matter how bad you have it, sadly someone’s always beating you in the competition down the well. It’s a shame it’s so hard to keep those downward comparisons in mind when your personal issues are at the forefront. In the end I guess it's because pain is pain, whether it’s from a 2 year old not getting their way or the truly horrible shit that happens in war. It’s activating the same areas of the brain.
As I said above, hey, at least we’ve got music.
And on-topic. Agreed with the statement above... even if these matts (or anything else in audio) are just placebos, why not? Research clearly demonstrates that placebos can be just as real as the drugs they mimic. Hell, they might even have fewer side aside from the risk of social mocking.