mental health issues

When I'm on the street working with folks, it's rare that I have a large success, such as getting someone into housing. To me, that's a biggie.

To be sure, I've put a number of peeps into transitional and permanent housing, but most successes are small, barely worth mentioning here.

While perceptions about mental illness have changed significantly over the past couple of decades, there is still considerable stigmatization and ostracism associated with those who suffer from these illnesses.

This post goes with my earlier post Poverty Does Not Cause Homelessness. And this theme applies to mental illness as well. It applies to all the established beliefs about what causes homelessness. Certainly all these things, poverty, addictions, mental health issues, etc, have a part to play in the world of homelessness, but current mainstream ideas in the homeless industry are mostly

The idea to give homeless people homes has been gaining popularity nationwide, largely because it has been seen as a cost-effective way to get them off the street and into better lives.

Over the past 8 years, there seemed to be only one thing that motivated politicians more than voting themselves pay raises; cutting the costs of expenditures to assist the poor.

It is a rather strange occurrence for a suicide in a hospital, especially one that involves hanging.

In a thought provoking post, Say Uncle takes on a Jeff Woods article in which he asserts that there is no impediment to a person judged mentally defective from procuring a firearm.

Katie Allison Granju at Knoxville Talks pointed to an article about depression in people in their forties.

As I’m in my forties, I wish to opine.