Soulful Sepulcher comment

Stephany at her blog Soulful Sepulcher

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“thank you for your insight Mark, you definitely are to be admired by everyone”

The compliment of “admire by everyone” makes me wince. I did not intend, do not intend to be admired, and say I KNOW the answers to making people well. I am by my standards a failure as I do not earn an income from a job.

I am just trying to tell the North Wind and Sun story of persuasion is better than force.

You can’t force (make) someone to be well, they have to chose it.

Maybe that is the answer.

“Over the next decade, he continued to wander the campus, working independently on mathematical problems. Some time in the 1980s, he finally overcame his mental illness, learning to reject the voices that he heard in his head. His recovery was gradual, but allowed him to slowly become mentally fit, allowing him to regain a role in society. He said that his recovery was as a result of his decision to think rationally.” from http://www.freeinfosociety.com/article.php?id=101

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 John Forbes Nash Jr

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Example of the insanity of overdrinking

They gave drunks a room and the ability to drink, and some got better and it was less costly than the North Winds method of force.

from Furious Seasons

A new study came out in JAMA this week detailing whether the concept of “Housing First,” as it’s known, had any impact (here’s an AP piece on the study). The 98 street drunks whom the study tracked had cost the public $4,066 a month prior to entering 1811 and afterwards they cost $1,492 a month after six months in the facility and $958 a month after 12 months. That’s a pretty big savings and, oddly enough, some of the residents began to drink less. Some even got sober. (Some also died.)

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Example of help and kindness given to drug addicts, (understanding) instead of a beating.

Insite.

Insite is the first legal supervised injection site in North America.

Over a one-year period, Insite counsellors made more than 4,084 referrals, with close to 40 per cent of those to addiction counselling. People using Insite are more likely to enter detox, with one in five regular visitors beginning a detox program. The facility also cut down on deaths from overdoses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insite

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I fully respect the current social order , as they take responsibility of the “mentally ill” and the work of feeding, washing and bedding of very difficult people, not criminals, but needing help.