Never do they say “seek therapy if you have the option to.” They actually say things like “Therapy, NOW.” And don’t seem at all aware that it’s unaffordable for many people. When informed that it’s unaffordable, they insist a reshuffling of priorities will provide the money rather than accepting that some people don’t have disposable income. In fact today one redditor told someone with a problem, “therapy, regardless of anything else.” Regardless of whether or not you can afford it then.

An average can of soup is like £1.70. So I certainly wouldn’t have gotten 3-4 meals for the price of a bag of chips, and would also have had to have eaten the soup cold without utilities.

My cancer treatment has also caused me to develop multiple severe food intolerances to the point there are very few things I can safely eat, and soup is a no-go for me, but you sound like one of the people who thinks poor people shouldn’t be allowed food intolerances and should just eat whatever is cheapest no matter how violently ill it will make them.

And they did, in fact, call me a liar and say “Nobody lives like that,” when I spoke about having to choose between utilities or food. What ready to eat groceries was I supposed to buy without utilities? Even a ready made sandwich was the same price as a bag of chips. Maybe something is lost in translation. When I say chips I mean these: https://i0.wp.com/metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/chips_flickr_gary-tanner-e1424258208729.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=644%2C538&ssl=1

So yeah I would rather have one hot meal than one can of cold soup that will make me ill. And sorry for preferring hot food in the middle of winter when I couldn’t afford central heating.

You are very much denying my experience, and these people were not well-meaning. If even people here think this way, then we truly have no hope of a communist future.

Is that even possible? when I go to the hospital, they ask name, date of birth, address etc, I don’t see how you can just give a fake name. Also it’s debatable whether bankruptcy is better than death, depends on your current circumstances. I’d choose death at this stage of my life.

I find people in general are like that though. Very judgmental of anyone who’s struggling, always assuming if you aren’t doing well it’s your own fault for not trying hard enough. Many of the people on reddit who say things like this are middle aged too.

Wow $200 once a week would be over $10K a year. Some people are surviving off less than that but say you can’t afford therapy and redditors are like “You need to get your priorities in order. Cut down on unnecessary spending.” Some of us already have no unnecessary spending as we can’t afford it!

Thank you.

Was the food then divided between the residents?

Probably just too ashamed.

Older generations were brought up with the idea that it’s shameful to receive help, but we need to do away with that idea, especially as wealth gets more and more concentrated in the hands of a few and there’s less for the rest of us.

You can pay for rehab with food stamps?

They want to deport immigrants, repeal human rights laws, destroy the NHS, give tax cuts to the wealthy, get rid of all climate protection policies, implement mass stop-and-search, introduce a “patriotic curriculum” in schools, ban “transgender ideology,” oppose “woke content,” protect landlords, reduce abortion access, repeal equality diversity and inclusion, restrict LGBTQ+ rights, and propose a “hardline, nationalist and socially conservative agenda.”

This is exactly what happened to me. GPs refused to do any tests for nearly 4 years, saying I was too young for it to be anything serious. Eventually my employer paid for me to get tests at a private hospital. Turned out to be thyroid cancer.

Thanks for the bump!

Thanks for the bump!

A lot of people who’ve been privileged in life like to imagine that they earnt it and that more unfortunate people deserve their poor fates too.

I wonder if this is what happened to Atlantis.

Haha, thank you, I hope so.

Marigold gloves and a binbag, pull it out by hand. Cheaper than getting a plumber.

Not good. Having allergic reactions to my meds, a UTI that won’t clear up and need more foot surgery. And my migraines are flaring up.

I don’t know enough about it to comment.

You mean AMOC as in the climate thing?