Not every unhappy person can benefit from the services of a CPN. In this section attention falls on the leading self-service comforting modes people select to hold at bay the deprivations of the hour, the regrets of the past and the unthinkability of the long-term: eating, smoking, and alcohol and other drugs. All are life-shortening.
42 The way people prioritize their spending is very different from my life. Most of it seems to go on fags, drink, bingo and satellite TV. (police officer)
1 Health just means not being ill, if you are ill you’re not healthy. People don’t realize that anything else is a part of health. Everyone has a fag or a drink, it doesn’t matter in the long term. You live for today in Dundee. People don’t think that they’ve got much of a future, they just live for getting their dole and going out at the weekends. (single non-mother, 20)
