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Naive girl raises $400K for violent homeless bum who prefers drifting, theft, and drugs - she’s now refunding donations …(revolver.news)

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HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 26 days ago

It's almost like many among the homeless suffer from untreated mental issues.

Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 26 days ago

Often schizophrenia and there's no cure.

HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 26 days ago

There are, however, treatments, antipsychotics, etc.

Jiminy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 25 days ago

One symptom of it is thinking there's nothing wrong with you and refusing to take meds. Need to force them all into institutions but that costs money and the elites like them out there causing problems for free.

HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 25 days ago

Yes.

What you're describing is why mental issues are such a challenge to deal with, even just in theory.

There has to be a right balance between not doing anything and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Of course, to actually help (those who can be helped)
without oppressing the merely odd
requires both benevolence and intelligence,
qualities that are becoming rarer and rarer.

Wohho 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 26 days ago

Something like this happened in our town. Business owner down town went WAY out of his way to help a guy named Lucky who'd been begging for years. Put him up in an apartment, gave him clothes and food and a job in his business. Lucky was eventually like "fuck this, it's too hard, I like living on the street."

Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 26 days ago

She's young, I was once too and I wanted to help homeless people, I was affected by stories about Jesus in the Bible. I was misinterpreting the Bible to be honest. Can't help someone like that. It's like teaching a man to fish not giving them fish. But they have to want it.