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Absolutely. It takes a great deal of faith to not be overcome.

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Greg Abbott isn't fit to clean toilets, let alone be governor. What could he possibly know about mental health? Anyone who doesn't support assault rifle bans in the face of ongoing mass shootings is hardly a paragon of mental virtue.

Anyway, yes lack of money/being poor, causes day in and day out stress...the threat of becoming homeless, the loss of a low paying job, no decent health care; it all adds up as you said and of course it affects one's mental health because that's what long term stress does.

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It would be a glorious day if we ever banned all assault rifles (again). This is a horrifying time in our country’s history- hard to know how to handle it, what to do…

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Money is the one thing we all either do or don’t have in common...but it’s one thing that controls us to no end...

It’s like there’s a price on a persons life, and once the price hits the negatives they’re tossed to the side...

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Understandably so, you shouldn’t bring an anchor on your life raft

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Pride has a lot to do with it...it’s like you know you need help but you’re too proud to say you’ve fucked up royally

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As an impoverished villager myself,,

There’s “being happy with what you don’t have” and also realizing that some things are needs, and you actually can’t be happy without them.

Budgeting is a major issue of mine, thanks for your article...many good points.

On suicidality and poverty ...yes, they do go hand in hand, and the mind wanders...but you start to remember all the things there IS to live for...that changes can be made

For me I’m gonna try my fuvking hardest to go back to school in the fall, I’ve considered taking online classes but never actually tried doing that....

So maybe for me, once again..v poor...I should try other things instead of just thinking about it and shooting myself down

Being poor is actually the worst most degrading thing...not being able to have access to clean drinking water...puts you infront of yourself.

You can accept THAT, or you can accept that you’ve gotta get the fuck up and make some changes

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Thanks for your comments! And you make a lot of good points. Yes, budgeting is a problem for me, too. But I also think that budgeting is perhaps..."the doing of a useless thing" when you know you have no money to allocate. I'm all for changes, and that too is made more difficult when you lack money—not impossible, just more difficult. I'm looking for another job, myself!

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Thank you for your posts

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And I really appreciate your reading and commenting!

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The work/life balance brings other trials too!!! It feels like a never ending cycle.

It’s a merry go round, I’m running the ride but all the different seats are filled by wants and needs - I’ve just said fuck it and ran the thing without checking for seatbelts ....

I’ll have to stop before the next run and make sure all my ducks are in a row

Cause sis they are NOT HAHAHHA

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Very well stated, Joan. While there's certainly a murderous element to what we saw in Texas, I always remember these shootings include suicide. Suicide happens when people don't see a way out of their personal predicament, i.e. poverty.

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Thanks Joe. When you mention suicide, do you mean when the gunman kills himself after he's done with the killing or right before he's about to be captured? I believe police eventually killed the gunman in the Texas case...

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Correct. I started thinking about that after the mother of a Columbine shooter gave a speech about how she could have prevented the shooting. She talked about how while they were murders, they were also suicides (shooting themselves or suicide by cop). That prism helps me think about how this could be prevented.

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