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Originally Posted by Ferd
one of the least helpful things you can do for someone who is hurting themselves is to "help them"
it aint help. Its enabling.
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It's called "tough love", and it is indeed extremely tough. It is hard on families to just let their loved ones disintegrate, hurting themselves, and others. Sometimes tough love works, sometimes it doesn't. We must be brave enough to put them in the hands of the Lord. I do think that jail time can help someone in this kind of situation, but, it can also make them much worse, and more dangerous. We have a nephew in this situation, jail time has caused him to become more hard, more dangerous, and more of a threat to the general public. He should be locked up, and the key thrown away, instead, he is getting out in October
