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Grass8989 t1_iu0oj99 wrote

Reply to comment by GoHuskies1984 in New York’s Migrant Tent City Is Mostly Empty a Week After Opening by nexert233

The majority of homeless are just “down on their luck” according to this sub, I can’t imagine they would do something like that. /s

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Hrekires t1_iu13zvi wrote

I mean... the average homeless person in NYC is homeless for about a year. That feels like "down on their luck" to me?

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Double-Ad4986 t1_iu0oqf1 wrote

ur missing the /s even though yeah some are down on their luck but most definitely arent

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SuperTeamRyan t1_iu0w5fd wrote

Having long term substance abuse problems isn’t mutually exclusive to being down on your luck. In fact having mental health issues will increase your chances of having shit luck.

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hellobeau t1_iu12awd wrote

yeah lol like do people think that drug addicts think about long term consequences and possible severity of these consequences when trying drugs for the first time

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Soraflair t1_iu1z7he wrote

You're definitely supposed too.

Do you know anyone who smokes weed who endorses trying fucking meth?

You are 100% responsible for what you put in your body willfully as an adult.

If I catch myself drinking too much, I literally take a breather week so I don't become addicted and are always in control of my facilities. That's why all the commercials say "drink responsibly." Not drink, and then go drive your car during rush hour #YOLO"

The only reasonable exception is heroin based products that were prescribed by a doctor. (Lorizapan for anxiety, Oxy for Pain, etc.) Then the patient becomes addicted.

Pain pills are a reasonable exemption, but in circumstances where the user is doing too much drugs on the weekend that they develope a problem.

Yeah that's entirely the users fault, fix your shit, and face the childhood demons your avoiding like the rest of us

Stop running away from your problems with substance abuse because it "numbs the pain." That's a ridiculous excuse, deal with your problems. The hard truth is life does not care about your trauma, deal with your shit, or end up homeless and drugs, that's simply the reality.

You don't need a psychiatrist for 99% of these issues. Here is a freebie, experience sexual trauma as a child, and now you're carrying the weight of that around without telling anyone, because it's to painful to deal with, and you've given up because "it's already been to long, I missed my chance."

Pull your head out of your ass and tell someone. No wonder you can't hold down a job, who the hell can do that while carrying around childhood sexual trauma while literally pretending everything is totally fine, and literally becoming exhausted all day hiding your emotions and blending in? What are you an idiot? Fix your shit, tell someone, and then if you still can, as an adult, set that person straight.

"I forgave you a long time ago, but you listen here, if you ever come near me or my family ever again so help me God I'll put you in the fucking hospital, and you'll be eating through a feeding tube."

See, you even got to forgive them, and move on without violence, but set them straight and asserted yourself that you'll never willfully become a victim again. (You have no control, I mean someone could push you Infront of a train, but the point is it's not willful.)

That's closure. Now you don't have to down a fifth of Jack Daniels every weekend to stop your demons from harassing you.

TL;DR people need to fix their shit, instead of turning to drugs and alcohol to numb their pain. Life doesn't care about you, and that's just the way it is.

EDIT: u/maveric29 has pointed out that I have improperly categorized the medication I was commenting on; the proper classification is Opiates, and Lorazepan is a Benzodizapine. Regardless, the comment is more directed towards providing an exemption of my remarks towards those people. I believe they should be exempt as they are simply following established medical doctrine in order to treat an underlining condition; and should not be viewed with the same scrutiny as I described for those outside of that category.

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FuckinPeacemaker t1_iu220hz wrote

Hey man it sounds like you have everything figured out. Have you thought about writing a book with such wisdom as “pull your head out of your ass” and “fix your shit”. You could really help heal a lot of people with such sage advice!

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Soraflair t1_iu29iex wrote

Honestly i've thought about it, it's really not hard, I had to fix my own issues as well, you'd be surprised at the amount of people who have childhood sexual trauma who literally just avoid the issue all day, carrying weight around. (Yes I am aware you we're being sarcastic)

Anxiety does not care, and will continue to bother you all day until you fix it.

You will come home everyday, and not do the dishes because you are so exhausted, you will look at the laundry, but not fold it because you "can't even," you will stay up every night until 1:30AM even though you said you would go to bed early because you have work the next day. Then you will wake up at the literally last possible moment, you will even do mathematical equations, factoring in imaginary traffic patterns based on your previous travel times to work, factoring in the difference with things such as the weather, or to account for accidents to LITERALLY LEAVE FOR WORK AT THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND. "Well if I leave at exactly 7:57, ill be there before 8:45.

I mean come on, how much louder does it have to be? Then you think, I'm a slob, but then you'll suddenly get a burst of energy, and clean THE ENTIRE HOUSE, from top to bottom, and then once you're done, it'll just start back up.

You can only go to the gym for 3 weeks at max, before you give up.

Yet, people still can't figure out what these things mean even though their entirely obvious: YOU CAN'T DO THE DISHES BECAUSE YOU ARE AVOIDING SOMETHING MUCH MORE IMPORTANT IN YOUR LIFE, YOU CAN'T DO THE LAUNDRY BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT YOU ARE NOT DEALING WITH. EVERY DAY WILL BE THE EXACT SAME, AND YOU WILL BE MISRIBLE GETTING NO WHERE UNTIL YOU FIX YOUR SHIT.

Everyone has their issues, the problem is you assume I think it's just the drug users, no it's literally everyone, everyone has these issues, and they're all not equipped to handle any of this, and it absolutely drives me crazy, that I almost refuse to help anyone, except on rare occasions; I didn't birth all these people, there is literally too much work for one person to do, on top of all this, it's like talking to brick walls half the time, everywhere I go, I have to argue with people who don't understand how any of this works; drives me up a wall; & don't even get me started on r/Christianity, JESUS CHRIST those people are more lost than the /r/athiests. At least the athiests aren't totally full of shit.

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machined_learning t1_iu24zvj wrote

TL;DR I've made sweeping generalizations that drug users are just weak people who don't know as much as me.

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maveric29 t1_iu2l1zh wrote

You have it all figured out! Lorizapan is not related to heroin not would anyone who knows what their talking about as a heroin derived. Heroin oxy and fentanyl are derived from opium hence opiates. Lorizapan is a benzodiazapine. Very different.

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Soraflair t1_iu2mncq wrote

Ah you have me there, yes, my fault, the proper categorization is opiates.

I was unaware that Lorazepan was not an opiate but a benzo; very good information to know.

Unfortunately they are typically prescribed together with disastrous results. (Source: https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/opioids/benzodiazepines-opioids )

Regardless, I will update my comment with the clarification that I am allowing a reasonable excuse for addiction derived from pharmaceuticals. The point being is that a person who was prescribed addictive medication, cannot really be blamed entirely for becoming addicted to it, because they were prescribed in a medical, and controlled manner, with the intention of treating an underlining condition. Thus it would be unreasonable to blame them entirely for becoming addicted, because they are simply trusting the established medical community. (Plenty of people became addicted around 2010s completely unaware of the dangers of these medications, and it would be unfair to place entire blame on a lot of these people.)

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maveric29 t1_iu2ns3c wrote

They are generally only prescribed together as a low grade anesthesia while ministered and administered my a physician. They are not safe when used together and will not likely be prescribed.

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Soraflair t1_iu2ogg4 wrote

Is this a more recent thing? Do you happen to know why the VA prescribes both then? (I'm not making any accusations; just curious) Looks like the FDA hasn't outright banned the practice, just maybe advises against it?

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/va-investigates-impact-opioids-sedatives-veterans

(More scholarly source: https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2698 )

Although this is a bit off topic, I was only making a simple argument, my main point is drug addiction derived from prescribed pharmaceuticals should not be held to the same standard as self medicating copping based addiction.

(FDA Advisory link: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-drug-safety-communication-fda-warns-about-serious-risks-and-death-when-combining-opioid-pain-or )

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maveric29 t1_iu2rmqh wrote

They persibed them both because I'm certain situations they are useful. My main point was you clearly can't grasp drug use or abuse. And your misunderstanding of simple things proves as much.

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Soraflair t1_iu2udrq wrote

Sounds like an appeal to authority, or established order.

What exactly is incorrect with what I am saying? My argument is that drug users, typically utilize drugs to cope with trauma, and use it as an escapism method in order to avoid dealing with their actual problems.

However, the drug cycle does not typically end by simply attempting to stop utilizing the drugs unless you deal with the underlining driver of the drug use, which is typically unresolved trauma.

Which is commonly resolved via therapy sessions; which is nothing more than a licensed therapist helping you sort through your issues.

How is anything I am saying irrational? Sure i'm a bit brash, because we'll frankly i'm sick of seeing it excused everywhere in this society, and having to deal with it 24/7.

The point being is that we have an epidemic of "psychological issues," issues that people used to literally just associate with the human condition. I would argue it's literally trendy now to claim to have MPS; which is nothing more than, you guessed it, more trauma avoidance.

We are entirely enabling this behavior, by not calling it for what it is, these people are full of shit, who would rather do drugs, and self medicate than deal with their demons.

My point is, that no amount of medication will solve these specific issues, anxiety will never go away, and can only be dealt with by dealing with the issues head on. (Which is why I stated that in 99% of circumstances, people are simply avoiding dealing with their issues, there is a rare exemption of 1%; which by in large is not a small population, who legitimately have physical medical issues that absolutely impair their mental cognitive processes, however the majority of people in our society do not fall into this category.)

You likely missed my other comment, but I also addressed the same issues present in people who are not dealing with addiction:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/yetmxo/comment/iu29iex/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

It's not simply a one off occurrence, it's an entire epidemic of people who simply refuse to deal with any of their issues what so ever, on an unprecedented scale.

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maveric29 t1_iu7dzt7 wrote

I give up you are insane and incapable of coherent thoughts. Have a pleasant evening

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Plays_On_TrainTracks t1_iu3tpzt wrote

This should have been one of those post you made it about halfway through, and said fuck it, and just deleted.

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