Hi looking for change, I appreciate your post and your PM.
There's no plans right now to turn this thread in to a forum
I might be biased cos I'm a musician/writer, but I've met a lot of people in my half century of life, and I really don't think that creative types are necessarily any more or less manipulative than other addicts, or indeed than other groups of people in general?
I take your point about enabling but tbh there's not a lot of that goes on here at SR - we're all pretty good at calling out BS - and outside of enabling, I really can't see how empathy or understanding could be destructive?
you've obviously been burned a few times and I'm sorry for that.
Maybe if you spoke a little more on what the background is to you feeling this way, we could all understand a little better?
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