What can we DU now to help TTW and Yoshi ?

[SheilaT]

370. I never said anything like that, least of all in connection

with why her relatives weren't willing to help her, which only came up in the first two, maybe three threads.

If you haven't had a chance to, read through those first four threads. I could post the rest, or I could PM them to you if you ask me. Her poverty is a recent issue. She (supposedly, and I say that because we can only go on what she told us) worked, earned lots of money, apparently as a stripper and then as a bartender until relatively recently. Trust me, I don't look down on someone who strips for a living. Or tends bar. If you're supporting yourself and it's not illegal, it's a good job. (Personal note: I have a son, a college graduate, cum laude from a good private college, who delivers pizza for a living. He loves what he does, he supports himself, he doesn't ask his parents for money. I don't judge anyone by their job, please believe that.) But then, according to her, she lost her hot water, causing her to lose her job, which she blamed specifically on her landlady who refused to fix the hot water problem because it apparently never occurred to TTW that she could boil water on the stove to wash with. So either she stopped going in to work or she showed up looking pretty sketchy, and was fired. After that, no one would hire her. No one. For any job whatsoever.

I have no patience, in normal circumstances, to that last claim. There are always jobs out there. Yeah, most of them are crappy. Fast food, retail, but it's far, far better than nothing. Hell, all the people who claim that they have to take SS at age 62 because they can no longer find work aren't bothering to notice that retail or fast food will probably pay as much as the early SS, and they can let SS build up, but that's another discussion entirely.

It's amazingly enlightening to read through the threads, which I did just yesterday.




I think the drama comes because perhaps she's the sort of person who creates it in the first place, or perhaps her deteriorating mental state (mental illness?) contributes.

I can't diagnose at a distance. I have my own notions of what's wrong with her, but I'm not a clinician and I've never met her in person. Here's the thread that may shed a lot of light on this whole thing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026748167

She started it, then she shut it down by deleting the OP, which I have no way of recovering. Make sure you read post 272, the one hidden by jury decision. That is not a mentally stable person.