So…I’ve got a lot of mental problems, but that hasn’t stopped me from helping out other people with problems. My friend asked me something the other day that got me thinking…
What gives me, a person with too many problems to count, the right to tell people what to do about their own problems?
My argument was that, no I don’t have a right. But who on the internet does?
I may not be qualified, but I’m suffering through this for a reason. And that reason is to help others with the same problems.
I haven’t overcome my problems because I don’t want help. I’m too far gone for help.
If you’re not I’m here if you need someone to talk to or need some help at zquijas10@ymail.com I’ll try to answer asap 🙂
But if you dont think I have the right then don’t I would understand.
Do I have the right?
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“What gives me, a person with too many problems to count, the right to tell people what to do about their own problems?”
The fact that people ask, and listen, and decide whether they like the answer and want to use any part of it to benefit themselves.
It’s not like people are just going to go do whatever you say, just because you say things.
Anyone has just as much right to give an answer, as the right to refuse one.
Your “friend” asked you “what gives you the right?” What a D-bag.
It’s always up to the person receiving the answer, to determine whether they find it valid and/or applicable.
Yes, you have every right. You have helped me very much with one comment. Doctors were just in so big of a hurry when I went to see them I never got to tell them some of the strange things I do, and so after all these years I just found out thanks to YOU that the reason I sit around on my legs and don’t want to move for long periods of time an sometimes end up at the er because of it .. is just another symptom of scitzo and probably not just some bad habit I got into.
Also, something i forgot to mention: a little thing called “experience.”
To counter your friend’s question, you could ask: “what gives someone WITHOUT problems, the right to tell anyone what to do about theirs?”
How can someone who has not experienced problems, have any valid input about said problems?
But it’s the same either way. Some people are really good at figuring things out, without having to encounter them first hand, while others know certain things very well, /because/ they have encountered them first hand.
It just… man, that “what gives you the right” really bothers me. It’s almost like saying “why should i listen to someone who has problems?” It’s like saying “you have problems and are automatically worthless” instead of realizing that having problems gives people direct experience, from which they often gain insight into the nature of those problems, and even if they can’t fix their own lives, they can help others with similar problems, before those problems reach an irreparable status.
No you do not have the “right”. What you do have is the license, permission, ability to offer your help and advice. Life has given us few “rights” and even fewer choices and if you feel you are assisting then good for you. But remember the recipient of your advice/help also has no duty to interpret your advise in any particular way.
Thankz..