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Originally Posted by perrjojo
Unfortunately many homeless suffer from mental illness. Have you read The Soloist or seen the movie? It is very enlightening. We have good friends who are well off financially and good parents of 4 children. One of the children has been homeless for years, not because of a lack of a support system. He drifts home occasionally and his parents have tried numerous ways to get him help. It breaks their heart and they worry constantly but he has made the choice and it seems not much can be done. A very sad situation.
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I have seen a lot of movies and read books about mental illness. I had a nervous breakdown due to long term stress (and probably another matter but I have been trying to get that investigated by the ObamaCare people) in late March -April of 2000 and spent maybe a week in the hospital and then in a mental ward. I have tried to get the National Alliance on Mental Illness involved with my work as painting someone mentally ill often has the affect eventually of making them so.
http://www.nami.org/