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Originally Posted by flylock shox
Boy. Some ugly comments in this thread. A lot of posters so far come across to me (and, I would think, to most outside observers) as likely being arrogant and ignorant; coming from privileged backgrounds with healthy families, who were given plenty of opportunities to succeed, and simply don't care to try to understand how the other half lives.
I don't think a lot of people on this board understand what it's like to grow up in a household with an alcoholic (and usually absent) father and a heroin-addicted mother - parents who've kicked you out on the street when you were 14 or so, or who effectively got you involved in the drug world when you were a kid, or who sexually abused you. And I doubt most people posting here understand just how bad things can be when you find yourself unloved by anyone, alone, poor, and living in a situation where you can't see a way out. Some of the people you're criticizing deserve credit for at least one thing - they haven't committed suicide in circumstances where a lot of people would have done. A lot of the people you're describing have never been given any reason to hope for anything better in their lives, and it's a minor miracle they've held on to what they've got.
In fact, the number of people you're talking about who are homeless or poor because they have a mental illness is actually very small. The number of people who have a mental illness because they're homeless or poor on the other hand, is much larger.
There are, among this population, an exceptional sub-group who are, in fact, making a lifestyle choice. For them, I have no sympathy.
But seriously, the blanket statements... yeesh...
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Don't bring this crap into the thread. You heard the other posters, if people have arms and legs that work, there is no reason for them to not be working.
pffft, growing up in abusive family's, being thrown on the street with no loved one's and no hope, what junk, everyone should be emotionaless robots and just work.
/sarcasm