Re: Never give up

Man, that is a heartwrenching read. I saw it on the headlines but didn't read it until you posted this. It may not be "health news", but thanks anyways. I will never look at his comedy the same again.

As for "never give up", I didn't feel inspired though. I understand that Darrell went through, and is still in, hell, and that he is successfull.... but if we was not successfull he might have "given up" long ago. Thats why celebrety sorrows don't have much pull - there are 1000s an 1000s of people who endured what Darrell did, and are now homeless and cold and tired and still living as best they can  - tell me THEIR story and I might be inspired.

Some people ask for help and get it. Others get taken away in an ambulance and rejected by the hospital because they have addictions and the doctors assume it is all about the addiction. Then they have to find their own way home. My friend "Marie" is doing that right now - the ambulance took her 50 km from home and it is cold out and they did not LET her take her jacket...  now she is hitchhiking home in the cold rain in the dark,  without a coat , after asking for but not getting any help at the hospital for her "overwhelmed" psyche. They treat her like dirt.

Sorry to be so negative,  I have been ready to "give up" for awhile now. Several of us around here are. Life is getting harder for us every day. We mostly are disabled chronic illness and pain people, and yes some of us are addicted to painkillers - why should that make us targets for abuse?  Personally, I was prescribed morphine, and that is all I am addicted to, it is all I take other than some pot now and then.

Darrell Hanna doesn't know the third layer of suffering {1] victim, 2] lifelong consequences of the abuse or other trauma, and 3] being rejected}