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[–] MapleCoffee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think it also has to do with the overall bad mental health that a lot of people have. We don't really have a lot of truly helpful solutions for most people.

Yeah, we have some facilities, but they can be inaccessible. If you're in denial over struggling, you might think that the amount you drink is ok, even if that amount might not actually be ok. Someone might see mental health or addiction stereotypes and think to themselves "I'm not as bad as that guy", and then that person believes that they are ok when they really aren't ok.

If someone seriously doesn't want to stick around, they're probably not going to care about littering. If someone hates everyone, they're probably more likely to feel ok stealing. If someone's constantly in mental agony, they might look for anything to escape it. If you think dinner is completely ruined, you probably won't fret about what drink you want to pair with it.

None of this makes the bad stuff ok, but I seriously think that bettering our country's mental health services would go a very long way in culling addiction. What we're doing now certainly isn't working.

[–] Tired8281 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Seems like what people really want is to take people who have already been seriously traumatized, and traumatize them some more. For their own good, of course.