Choice.

It definitely matters that they chose to start.

Sex toys? Blasphemy! Killing yourself with prescriptions? Perfectly fine!

Did they choose to start gambling? Or did someone force them?

Because it literally IS the solution.

Ugh… this just makes me feel all sorts of awful. I struggle to find the exact words.

Yeah, I’m aware- because if I didn’t recover from mine I was going to die.

So, with my therapist’s guidance, I was able to do my own after she picked out things I specifically needed to work on. I ordered a DBT spiral workbook and learned from there, I can now apply these skills daily. It’s saved my relationships and life. And yes, you have to re-wire basically your entire brain and world view. I was able to get it done in about a year.

Yes, there would be a reason for the creepy.

Yup. People WANT to work. And some people cannot afford to get jobs. Yes, I’m serious. Work clothes, a place to sleep, a permanent address, identification can all be barriers to employment.

Playing devil’s advocate is important for understanding both nuance and thinking dialetically.

You could be great at managing money and still poor because of the systems in place to benefit the wealthy and punish the poor.

Again, being good with money will not dismantle the way it is against us.

This. My city is doing a “poverty simulation” local event to "see what it’s like to be poor in (insert my city here) when the MAJORITY of us in this city ARE poor. There are homeless camps everywhere, too.

There was enough money, there was always enough money. There was always too much greed.

Oh, I’m happy- because I’m not obese anymore. Will still point out other’s fat logic.

List making and sticky note apps!

This isn’t the eighties, man!

My point was, I don’t think a lot of folk realize just how many people have disordered eating, not just eating disorders that can be diagnosed.

That’s awesome!

I have one because I have disordered eating actually, and needed to stop killing myself with food.

Oh gee, all that and nowhere does it say that an insult equals 3,500 calories! It’s the words that make you fat! I should have known. /eyeroll