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Originally Posted by Igottago
The problem is people don't know what mental illness is like, so they just assume a person is lazy, or made a choice to live on the street. It affects they way people think, behave, deal with situations. Even a minor mental illness can turn a person's world upside down, and as you said, if they don't have the support structure to deal with it, they can start sinking really fast, and get caught in a pit of dispair. Its not as easy as saying, "I don't wanna be homeless anymore, I'm gonna go get a job"...a lot of these people aren't fully capable of making a decision like that.
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Exaclty, and if you read some of the respones in this thread, you can tell how society as a whole views these people.
It's funny because this thread is kind of representative of what life is like for people living with mental illnesses. They are misjudged by people all the time, and that really doesn't help an already crappy situation.