Friday, July 6, 2012

Stop abusing people trying to help

If you are a veteran needing help to heal from where this country sent you, there are things you can excuse yourself for, but there are things there is no excuse for. It is the way you treat people.
If you ask someone for help then treat them like an enemy, it is unacceptable.

A veteran called me asking for help and I tried to do what I could for him explaining that I can help him spiritually. He had a need to find shelter after being kicked out of a relatives house. I told him where to turn to. I guess that isn't where he wanted to go because he called back from another relative's house.

He still didn't want to go where he needed to be any more than he wanted to stop drinking.

He called back saying he was ready to start healing and was willing to work at it.

Low and behold he got kicked out of that house too.

He called me again taking out his anger on me and wanted me to send people I knew to take care of him. I could tell he was drunk and understood why he was getting kicked out of other places. He wanted everyone to help him under his terms.

He is getting 100% disability but 5 days into the month, he was broke so he couldn't get a motel room or even buy gas for his car to get to where he needed to be.

He told me that he had been in several programs for PTSD but none of them worked. He is part of the reason they didn't.

While you may feel frustration trying to get the help you need, don't take it out on people trying to help you as much as they can. One more thing to notice is that while you may feel as if everyone owes you something, the people trying to help do it for free because they want to help but they don't owe you anything. They can't take away all of your problems with a magic wand. They can't do it all for you. You have to work at it.

If a long list of people you know have turned their back on you, take a look at what you did and then maybe, just maybe you'll understand why and then stop treating everyone like crap!

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