Comments by "Brenda Snow" (@brendasnow8255) on "Soft White Underbelly" channel.

  1. She’s so aware of her problems. I hope that this relationship lasts forever, and really hope that she gets all of the therapy that she needs.
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  2. He rescued himself.
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  3. She has a lot of insight. I wish she could recover from it all so she doesn’t feel like it was her fault, despite her insight.
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  4. It’s amazing, almost unimaginable, that she’s still looking healthy and still has her looks. Beautiful people get away with a lot, are treated differently, but all of the alcohol and drugs should be showing in her face. There must be a portrait in the attic.
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  5. Really? I took the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) test, and I had none.
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  6. If you worked for the state, you know that foster care isn’t the same as adopting. You also know that people who work for the state decide who becomes foster parents, and who adopts. Kids in foster care in most states age out and lose their foster homes, even while they’re still in high school.
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  7. Who is so kind that he repeatedly gets lied to and taken advantage of.
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  8. Oh, so sad, so broken. Terrible lives, even though he, at least, understands that it’s because of the drugs. They won’t be able to keep their baby if she’s on drugs when it’s born. Most likely, too, they’ll never get the child back, if they’re still using. So, another child, or more than one, in foster care, like they were. So horribly sad.
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  9. A lot f abused kids love their parents. If he thinks the best person beat and stomped him, then how does that make him feel about himself?
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  10. The way people from a place pronounce its name is the correct way. I learned to pronounce Appalachia the way you do.
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  11. There have been books about it, and you’re right; they paid doctors to prescribe them, and claimed that they weren’t addictive.
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  12. I really, really want him to succeed. Amazing that he learned so much about himself in prison.
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  13.  @kzero1499  Technically, you don’t. But they don’t just write it off. They try to collect it. And, the rest of us pay more because others can’t pay. We need universal health insurance.
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  14.  @myozbubble  And a very hardworking but poor woman I know couldn’t get even sympathy for her legitimate back pain because addicts claim back pain to get drugs. That would never happen to me, because Its obvious that I am middle class (and privileged), which is no guarantee, actually, that’s person is not addicted.
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  15. Sam, maybe not without healthcare and dentistry. People make fun of Appalachians for their missing teeth, but it’s an expense that is completely unaffordable. I knew an old (my age, but without my privilege) woman who had no health insurance until Medicare. She had tuberculosis as a young woman, which is fairly common. My dad’s family was from KY and Southern Ohio. I’ve lived in Appalachia for nearly 30 years, and it is, by far, my favorite region, out of four Ive lived in: the West (second most favorite), West Coast, and Midwest, because of hillbilly culture, folklore and music.
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  16. You should bail. You’ve tried so hard, for so long, to no avail. So few people quit drugs, even people who have kids, choose drugs over them. Rebecca seems to have no interest in getting clean, getting treatment for her mental illness.
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  17. So very sad. Even Rebecca seems defeated. Is she crying?
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  18.  @tomsmith2215  Twenty. That’s statutory rape.
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  19. It is amazing that he has such insight into his illness and can explain it so well. I’m so glad he’s taking his meds, but you’ll notice it still exists. Sad that he’s smoking meth, and that he’s on the street. What a terrible illness it is. He’s very bright.
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  20. Now, trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy is used, more and more, to help abused kids like Jerry to, hopefully, avoid the worst effects of abuse: drugs, prison, failed relationships, suicide. It works for adults, too, but TF-CBT trained therapists are in short supply, and the only people I know who have received it are abused children who are in State custody. I feel so sad for Jerry.
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  21. The thing is, he’s idealizing fathers because he lost his, but a lot of men aren’t able to be loving and good mentors to their boys, maybe for lack of examples.
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  22. A random boyfriend has her kids. Yikes.
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  23. He’s listening to voices in his head and it’s distracting him.
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  24. I think that the reason women living in poverty have long hair is because they can’t afford haircuts. So, it is a shame that they didn’t get shorter haircuts, maybe chin or mid-neck, for a real change.
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  25.  @daddysgirl102938  She wants to pay the bill.
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  26. I’m with Mark. Rebecca is more sober, and it’s nice.
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  27. Kids always love their mothers.
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  28. Rebecca is so good, is coherent, intelligent, doesn’t seem drugged. The way he is lately, 2023, is so sad.
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  29. I know. I sometimes think of going back West, but really can’t imagine doing it.
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  30. So, she’s better than black people? That “we” brought over to “help them?”
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  31. Mud Water? No.
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  32. On drugs, anyway.
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