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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
Sorry but your buddy has mental health issues. (for real) Going by your story, I doubt he could pass any sort of mental competency test.
Obvious but, no matter what... Do not give him money & don't enable his behavior in any way.
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I agree. His diabetes and his eating sugar by the pound. He doesn't care that all those crystalline structures are bouncing along his capillaries damaging them and when they repair themselves less blood flows thru his brain. Atrophying as he sits there being a idiot.
Five years ago He had "retired" from his job. Retire or get fired actually. So instead of getting a pension he took the cash equivalent which took him a couple years to go thru. Then he remortgaged his house with the credit union. Then when he needed more money he got a second mortgage on the house. Borrowed $26K, owed them $40K. Two years ago he was waiting to get his portion from his mothers estate. He finally got it about 10 months ago. We told him to pay off the second mortgage (he did), pay off any credit cards, put $1,000 on each of his utilities. Then put the rest into a term deposit. He then started looking at a $60,000 renovation of his kitchen and then a $40,000 reno of his bathroom. In hindsight I wish he had done either of those. The money is all gone now, just like his mind. None of us are giving him a dime and have told him so.