Is TSS ever happy? Ever?
Most people in this country have issues, and have gone through minor and major traumatic things in their lives, sometimes repeatedly, sometimes just once or twice. My mom died of a massive heart attack at a young age when I was not even yet a teen and I was the only one home with her. I learned early on that I could wallow in that tragedy or not. What good would it do to wallow in tragedy? None.
TSS sounds like he wallows in misery and wallows in his attitude that he is owed something by other people or the government to fix whatever his latest tragedy is. People like that are challenging to have as friends and employees and family. He seems to constantly be on the edge of threatening to drink too much, harming himself, or committing suicide. In other words, he uses emotional blackmail to get sympathy.
I doubt he will ever take responsibility for fixing his own mental health issues. If that includes taking medication, psychiatric help, seeing a psychologist, whatever. But only he can be responsible for it. I get the feeling the other dummies have found being his friend exhausting.
