Sadly , yeah . I tried telling them about how I felt 23 years ago , but they wouldn ' t put me on medication . Sent me to the worst therapist possible , who taught me how to hide my feelings from everyone else . My family told me that I could leave if I was happy again . <| sep |> Only certain moral precepts admit of exceptions , namely , positive laws . In other words , those things that we are told to do can have exceptions due to particular circumstances . An example is the command to care for the poor . One can only reasonably do so much . However , negative laws , that is , those things that we are not permitted do not admit of an exception regardless of circumstance . This is not a Christian or Catholic thing . This is just a basic morals thing . Morality in general regardless of being Christian or not requires conversion . We must change , not simply to conform to some emptyset of rule following patterns . Rather , we conform to the natural moral law because it is a conversion away from irrational behavior inconsistent with the natural order . As Christians we have the further conversion to the precepts of Divine Revelation . True compassion , or better still , true love holds the one loved accountable to what is right and assists those in need of conversion to overcome present weaknesses . It does not justify or relativize , thus making the work of conversion which is already difficult due to the effects of original sin even more difficult by disincentivizing right action . This would be what the psychologists would call enabling behavior . We must take great care to not confuse this sort of behavior , because of our own weaknesses , with compassion .