I understand the importance of lived experience as a self-report for certain situations, and I think that the thesis presented in this, and from a cursory glance, other works of this author are fertile ground for writing a research proposal for basic foundational research.

But I think there isn’t enough evidentiary support in the way of citations of preliminary work, analytical formulation or empirical data which can justify the hypotheses or claims. So while I agree there is an element of plausibility in what is claimed, it’s both irresponsible to publish work like this (which gives the impression of rigorous research), and to come across it and not leave a comment such as mine. Whenever someone makes bold claims, we should ask them to show their work.

We can make any number of biased assumptions to believe a hypothesis may be true, but it needs to be statistically shown as such. So again, I would encourage this author to reach out to clinical psychologists or cognitive psychologists to do the preliminary and basic foundational research, and have it be evaluated in some peer-reviewed manner.

Maybe one could say this is an opinion article, which is fine to leave without evidence or evidence of preliminary work. But opinions are not science, and it’s important to not claim that one’s opinion is scientific fact or evidence of an effect.