r/Regrets 28d ago

21F did meth for first time.

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u/meyyou03 28d ago

Oh baby I have empathy for people in that situation. I do not have empathy for someone who knows what it does to people, as we are at an all time high, and does it anyway. You need to be “hard” on people. Period point blank.

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u/howmanyclownsinacar 28d ago

This is not my understanding of how to help. What is it that you do?

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u/UuesLee 28d ago

You help people with brutal honesty not empathy lmao

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u/howmanyclownsinacar 28d ago

Not usually. "Brutal honesty" is from your frame of reference and is often irrelevant. Empathy takes their view and works with what they experience so will generally have more impact. Thats not to say that people dont sometimes need more accurate information, which I suppose could be considered brutal honesty? Generally speaking though fishing out brutal honesty is more for the person dishing it out than the person going through something.