Count Steer wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:35 pm
Potter wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:11 pm
Count Steer wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 8:02 pm
So, you haven't actually been on the street but you know some people that have chosen to be there? You've worked with companies that build housing and the organisations that use it?
I'd like to know how anyone would inactively employ people too.
Freebasing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_base
I was homeless for a couple of years, lived in the YMCA, sofa surfed, etc.
You're showing that you know nothing, Phoenix House was a residential drug rehab organisation, they had rehabs all over the country, they changed now into something different, they're called Phoenix Futures, but they still do drug treatment centres. Turning Point was the same, drug rehab and mental health care, also lots of day centres.
So, why did you
choose a lifestyle that made you dependent on Phoenix House and Turning Point? What were you addicted to? Or, why did you choose to help people that had decided to be addicted? For someone that talks about addiction you don't seem to know much about it other than it's what people choose to be.
But, everyone's experience is different and how they deal with it is different. It isn't wrong, just different.
For some people, what Potter writes would work. For others it wouldn't. Same as anything in life.
On a different subject but similar mentality, people on here regularly say that if someone is fat "all they have to do is eat less and move more" whilst berating them for the lack of control that has caused them be ugly and (horror of horrors) FAT - there is zero accounting for any pyschological or physical reason for the fatness. But that's ok, because they are just fat.
But because someone has strong views about this different topic, they have to be made to explain in minute detail
I don't understand needling someone that had strong views because you don't agree.
Surely it makes like much calmer, easier and (for want of a better word) nicer to scroll by? It's the way I've stayed on the forum.
And yes, sometimes I do make a post to make an actual comment with actual views, but rarely and only when I get really fed up with reading the bickering - TBF, I do usually close the thread and read something else. Maybe I should have done that tonight