I wanted to share a story of my interesting conversation with a mentally ill addict

[noname_]

When I visited my lone aunt who lives in a rough neighborhood, there is a woman who is always strolling nearby alone and is clearly mentally ill so I decided to check if she was okay. There's pain and remorse written all over her eyes so I gave her a box of pizza and cheered her up a bit with the pizza humor. She was grateful and to my suprise, she was very intrigued about my culture and background.

I could tell that she was genuinely happy that I took my time to answer all of her question, i don't think anyone had a convo with her for a long time and probably only a very few open minded one would for obvious reasons.

Anyway, I asked her if it was okay to share her story and what got her hooked into meth. She comes from a dysfunctional family (mother that she loved died when she was young), met the wrong people and spent some time in prison so she is punishing herself thinking her life is over.

Weeks later, she stopped by and said salam alaikum perfectly after I taught her that day she was curious about my background and gave me a paper that she wrote my name written in arabic alongside with some crescent, random arabic words and called it "art work". It legit warmed my heart.

I tried to convince her to meet the women in hijab (lots of horners around) and ask them what she asked me in day 1 who could help turn her life around but she anxiously said no. The problem is i approached to check her in the first place and her drug/homeless demeanor will drive people away from her (moreso with Muslims due to "stigma"). I can't do it because i'm a man who's gonna get everyone raising eyebrows but when you talk to her, she is nice and you just need to talk slow and keep it brief.

Those people are in constant misery so cheering them up for a moment is what we all should do. Who knows they’ll wake up?

Endstory

 

[Kalsoon]

our hearts and minds are fragile to trauma while also having the capacity to be more resilient than anything in this world. Emotional pain thats not addressed and healed from makes people make poor life decisions that are hard to come back from. Emotional health which includes the qalb in Islam is something we don't address as much as we should. She won't forget your kindness ever.

 

[noname_]

@bobby_hill-Punt

What's so funny about this?

 

[caanoshaah]

Tbh you are an amazing human being because it’s absolutely crazy to me ppl don’t have empathy for mentally ill ppl esp addicts. 99% of them have horrible or traumatic life experiences that honestly most people would end up in the same situation had they grown up in the same circumstances, but ppl don’t want to acknowledge that bc as you said

1.There is stigma and

2. I feel like ppl are uncomfortable with the reality that they could land in the same situation if things go wrong. Like ffs there’s a good amount of addicts even got addicted bc of a bad injury/accident that led to opioid addiction which spirals into heroin/fent once the opioids aren’t enough anymore

If u wanna keep talking to this lady I recommend instead of asking her to approach others, maybe try to see if there is anyone particularly women who are willing to talk to her with you, im not surprised she was anxious because u won’t believe the way ppl treat mentally ill ppl when they try to talk to others.

Once I was on the bus and this rlly sweet homeless/addict guy around my age started talking to me very innocently (I’m a young woman in my 20s) but the wayyy everyone was staring at us was actually sad asf like yes I understand there’s crazy people but kindness goes a long way and obviously shunning them over every little thing isn’t going to help… they’re human too but deadass ppl forget that

by the way I’m sure the gender thing isn’t an issue at all as long as you have good intentions which obviously you do

 

[3LetterzMM]

Real nigga I been homeless myself and trust me you start to think ur not even worthy of basic respect or kindness. We never forget the people that treat us like a human at our lowest point. One guy used to bring me sandwiches for breakfast every morning always talked to me made sure I ate10yrs later he told me his rent got raised he won’t be able to pay it plus his other bills so I paid his rent for 2 months it doesn’t even come close to what he did for me but it still felt great to see a good man catch a well deserved break.

 

[Basra]

When I visited my lone aunt who lives in a rough neighborhood, there is a woman who is always strolling nearby alone and is clearly mentally ill so I decided to check if she was okay. There's pain and remorse written all over her eyes so I gave her a box of pizza and cheered her up a bit with the pizza humor. She was grateful and to my suprise, she was very intrigued about my culture and background.

I could tell that she was genuinely happy that I took my time to answer all of her question, i don't think anyone had a convo with her for a long time and probably only a very few open minded one would for obvious reasons.

Anyway, I asked her if it was okay to share her story and what got her hooked into meth. She comes from a dysfunctional family (mother that she loved died when she was young), met the wrong people and spent some time in prison so she is punishing herself thinking her life is over.

Weeks later, she stopped by and said salam alaikum perfectly after I taught her that day she was curious about my background and gave me a paper that she wrote my name written in arabic alongside with some crescent, random arabic words and called it "art work". It legit warmed my heart.

I tried to convince her to meet the women in hijab (lots of horners around) and ask them what she asked me in day 1 who could help turn her life around but she anxiously said no. The problem is i approached to check her in the first place and her drug/homeless demeanor will drive people away from her (moreso with Muslims due to "stigma"). I can't do it because i'm a man who's gonna get everyone raising eyebrows but when you talk to her, she is nice and you just need to talk slow and keep it brief.

Those people are in constant misery so cheering them up for a moment is what we all should do. Who knows they’ll wake up?

Endstory

Touching story huuno but knowing u i need investigative reporters to confirm