Posted by Gabbi~G on August 1, 2006, at 18:14:18
In reply to Quality of life the answer, and what about drugs?, posted by Sobriquet Style on August 1, 2006, at 5:56:43
What Emme said is exactly true for me as well.
"Which isn't to say I'm not trying to do these things anyway. But there is a difference in my ability to engage in life when the meds are working. I believe that for some people, they are *the* tool that makes all the other tools usable."I'm really curious though at how you came to the conclusion that people in the third world have a joy that we don't. That's a really broad statement and certainly doesn't mesh with what I've learned about the treatement of Women, or Lower Castes, or the children who are drug addicted and used as prostitutes or sold into slavery because of poverty.
It's true that a certain survival skill does develop when people are in a dire situation.
For instance during the holocaust more people
killed themselves after escaping concentration camps, than did inside the camps. That's because for the most part they had something to live for when they were imprisoned. For the impoverished it's finding the next meal.
Obviously that's not joy though.
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