Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help? - eviltoast

Let me preface by saying, I have my SUV all set up with a bed and a kitchen and all the amenities I need to camp out in the woods. I like it that way I’m enjoying myself I see no reason to change.

A couple of times I have mentioned that when seeing a doctor and the next thing I know, here comes the social worker with a stack of papers. I tell them that I’m doing fine. That I like how I’m living. I didn’t ask for any unsolicited help. And they don’t seem to listen at all. At some point they just leave me with a bunch of paperwork in a huff. I don’t understand why they get so upset just because I don’t want their help.

  • protist@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    regardless of country

    social workers…are trained to be this way

    No, they’re not, and laws and licensing standards actually vary widely by country. I’m talking about the US, where we have a national accrediting body for social work graduate schools. Nowhere in there is anything about “insistence,” quite opposite in fact.

    OP’s experience that happened twice at the same doctor is in no way indicative of a pattern across the whole profession lol

    Lastly, looking at your other comment, I have absolutely no idea what “voluntary reinforcement classes in a shantytown” are or how a social worker would be involved in them, or what they did that relates to this topic

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      3 months ago

      No, they’re not

      Yes, they are. And odds are that you know it, and why (again: because if they don’t do it they fail to support people who need and want it).

      laws and licensing standards actually vary widely by country

      The principles and motivations behind those laws and licensing standards are still the same, regardless of government, so you’re bound to see a convergence on the effect of those things.

      And this is so blatantly obvious that your “ackshyually” is pointless.

      I’m talking about the US, where we have a national accrediting body for social work graduate schools.

      OP is likely from USA (due to reference of living in cars), so all your babble, implying that said “nashunal accreriring bory in muh caunrry” makes any practical difference, is just babble.

      (Surprisingly consistent with both what I’ve attested myself, and what I’ve seen people across multiple countries complaining about.)

      Nowhere in there is anything about “insistence,” quite opposite in fact.

      Do you understand the difference between what’s written in a paper versus reality?

      OP’s experience that happened twice

      Don’t assume “twice”. “Couple times” can mean anything between “twice” and “multiple times” depending on the utterance and context.


      At this point you already misrepresented what another person said, then tried to pull off an “ackshyually”, then changed the goalposts from practical reality to some bureaucratic organisation. As such I’m not wasting my time further with you or your comment.

      I wasn’t born yesterday.