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Some good time ago I found this topic on a Buddhist blog.
The general thrust of the topic was that compassion was very much contingent upon how the victim was addressing their problem. For example the issue of how much help should be given to a drug addict, if such help was essentially counter productive (idiotic).
I do not find this issue clear cut; it often involves making a very difficult choice.


My half sister, in her fifties, suffers from acute insomnia along with mental/physical problems and has lived as a virtual recluse for decades. Just prior to her death recently at 94, my mother was doctor shopping for her. Possibly one of the oldest in that game.


Seriously, relatives in particular can create great trauma for their kinfolk. Rock and hard place syndrome.
While I realize this isn't a psychiatric help blog , I thought there might be some relative Buddhist view. Thanks