General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

This is an easy thing to say, and I could say the same. But would it really be true? If one is unemployed and homeless, living out of a backpack or a shopping cart, with no meaningful education or history of skilled work, it really isn't easy to find work or otherwise get back on your feet. 

I say that if you haven't actually been there, you don't know whether you could overcome it. And, yes, that applies to me, too.

This is where forced rehab helps. Were also at a point where you cant just get up and get a living wage job walking into a tims, these days that requires education and evne then we live in a terrible economic situation which means alot of educated people are out of work too. I like forced rehab because even i if i would lose everything would lose the will to get back on my feet, and only pressure from others could help.

I suspect you have never endured or even pondered what it would mean to lose your physical freedom. 

Pressure from others, I dunno, maybe it helps someone. For me, internal motivation is much stronger. But I am certain that if I was confined, with no control over my own life in the way that forced rehab requires (let’s not mince words that’s a euphemism for prison, maybe you imagine something less cruel than a US style prison, but it is still forcible confinement) that would in no way help any recovery. 

But at the end of the day rehab of any kind does not work if you don’t solve the underlying socioeconomic situation that creates the conditions which put people on the street.