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Originally Posted by Luce
So the catch-22 is this: if we simply show empathy and sympathy then we are actually enabling your current status-quo. It doesn't help you in any real way at all, even if it feels better for you in the moment.
2. There is a possibility that hospital treatment might be required, BUT if you are willing to try whatever treatment is suggested to you it likely will not be necessary at all. The trick is in being open and willing to give the treatment a go. And at this point you don't have anything to lose. You say yourself nothing else has worked, and if the treatment offered has worked for other people in the same situation as you then it seems at least to be worth a go. You would still have the power and control to stop it at any time if you didn't like it.
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I don't think it is wrong to give someone the type of support they ask for rather than insisting upon doing that which they have repeatedly said they do not want. It seems disrespectful to me to ignore someones express request and instead continue doing that which has been asked to cease.
And in my jurisdiction - your second statement is simply not true across the board. I don't know the laws of Eden's jurisdiction as it is a whole other country from mine - but where I practice, what you said is not the case.