That night while curling Maw’s hair with pink, plastic rollers, we listened to Dr. Laura on our local radio station 560am-KSFO. We heard the story of a woman who has an alcoholic sister, who in her drunken state would make all sorts of unfair accusations. People like them are already out of their minds anyway.
The mother would call the woman to come over and help. But Dr. Laura told the caller to tell her mother that she just needs to call 9-1-1 and not involve the daughter who has to travel long distances to get to her mother’s house during these sorts of drunken and medicated episodes.
I am useless.
This is what people should realize: Anyone trying to change a broken person is useless. No doctor or therapist would be able to help the victim of their inner demons except the victim. No medication really works either. We know that because Prozac, for example, makes the person more suicidal, which is sad and which should be FIXED as part of Obama’s health care insurance reform bill.
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