I think it would have to be a small miracle, right or wrong, for Benning to do that, however, you never know. Kids against NHL players is different ballgame but I think Dahlen is special and a HUGE win for Benning.
- LeftCoaster

You feeling ok?
Have a fever?

Why does the one on the top left look like it is furry?
- manvanfan

Dog hair

I don't know how you came up with me downplaying mental issues because I put it in quotation marks. There are tons of mental issues and how they come about are very different, that's why I put it in quotation. I wasn't talking about a specific mental illness.

Not every drug user is an addict.

According to the guy in the video, it's not people's perception of treating addiction/drug use it is society itself that is doing it to people.

I volunteer and sit and talk with people, once a week. I usually watch a baseball game with a 50 year old who takes his clothes off and lays down on the floor when he doesn't get his way. Family is encouraged to come visit family or friend's that are there.

The guy talking about people that don't get hooked when they are in the hospital. It's different when medical personnel are giving you the drugs compared to being at home and you can self medicate to your hearts content.
- manvanfan

When you put things in quotation marks that aren't quotes, it reads as air quotes, as if you are undermining what you're saying. That's what "she" said. I'm not implying that's what you meant, only that's how it reads. In your first paragraph above you didn't put them in quotes, so it reads as normal flow. Talking about mental health issues, or talking about "mental health issues".

And I didn't read back through all the posts, so only talking about what I read from.

Society isn't doing it to anyone, it's not giving people drugs; however it's not currently set up (through stigmas, laws, and increasing disconnection) in driving people to cope on their own through various vices: TV, social media, alcohol, drugs, etc. Getting professional help is hard, both financially and emotionally, for most people... coupled with less support systems for individuals, it's easier to understand the escape towards drugs that people choose.

Then again, some people are just more inclined towards highs and addictions than others are, so cleaving this subject as black and white is a bit misguided (though not saying you are).

You are addicted to hot dogs you should be paying attention for the final results
- VANTEL

He would relish that

No, I said doing drugs was a choice. If you have a "mental issue", you can go seek out professional help. Self medicating is not seeking out professional help.
- manvanfan

Except for when they shut down the mental health hospital and put a few thousand residents onto the streets like they did with riverview in coquitlam.

No, I said doing drugs was a choice. If you have a "mental issue", you can go seek out professional help. Self medicating is not seeking out professional help.
- manvanfan

You have never in your life, ever, done or tried drugs? Not regularly, but one time?

Wholly (frank)!! I should of stayed in bed.
- A_SteamingLombardi

No love for the hate?

when someone says drug use is often about mental health issues, and you consistently say that "it's a choice" sure sounds like that's what you're saying. Either that or your views on peoples use of drugs is so smug and simplistic you actually have no idea what you are saying. I'm honestly not sure.
- neem55

Reading people shoot their mouth off about drug addiction and who deserves what... I grew up with parents addicted to hard drugs all through the late 70's and most of the 80's. My mother had serious mental illness and never even tried... total self destruct. I walked a fine line myself in the late 80's(17-19years old) and it came naturally to me being raised in that environment. Many people I knew that were raised in that environment didn't stand a chance... females mostly. Listening to opinions of people saying they got what they deserved... just everyone shut the (frank) up. Walk in someone else's shoes and tell me about choices.