Posted by linkadge on August 28, 2005, at 19:58:14
In reply to Re: What drug X did to me and why it's evil. » ed_uk, posted by Maximus on August 28, 2005, at 18:25:17
Its nice an easy to say "pull up your socks and get on with your life".
Would you say that to somebody who has wrongfully been exposed to a cancer causing agent?
Some dammage is beyond something you can "forget about" it is something that you have to live with every day, perhaps for the rest of your life.
To an outsider looking in, a comment such as "pull up your socks" is profoundly more indicative of ones own insecurities.
Its not a manner of getting on with your life, obviously they are doing that. That is why they are here. They may feel that it helps them to feel better about their own losses if perhaps they can prevent it from happening to somebody else. Being here to tell us about what happened to them is a way of coming to terms with their reality.
It sounds, more or less, that this is just something that some people are afriad to hear about. And so "stop complaining" is the best they can do.
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