Deep-Sea Scallop
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Xxx, you wrote: Phil — being dually diagnosed, and working for a dual diagnosis facility, I can tell you that first your attitude is discriminatory, and un-realistic, second ear-marked money, many times dictates what kinds of services have to be available, including the target-population.Since I know you and I know Phil, I feel you have mis-read him. People write things in relation to conversations they are involved in.  You
are involved in working directly with this target
population, so you are writing from what it feels like to be
working there. Phil is involved in an abstraction, in his
county they have out currently an RFP for setting up self-help
centers, there is no such thing there on the ground. The
people ‘in his conversation’ are the mental health community
members in Santa Clara County, and specifically,
the bidders, who are
providers. [The goal is for them to become temporary
fiduciary agents etc. while the clients develop a 501(c)(3)
capacity.]
Many of the people he is conversant with have
discriminatory attitudes and un-realistic ideas. Plus some of
the other clients involved are challenged by this level of
conversation. But it is unfair to say Phil’s attitude is
discriminatory when he is only talking to an audience which
has attitude problems. And his ‘feelings of fear’ are
really
EMPATHY, he’s trying to
figure out (knowing Phil) why
people with such attitudes have the fears that they do.
Respectfully Andrew Phelps |
