Category: Mental Illness | Page 2

Two psycho friends going around chair supporting each other in mental house

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Author
Marvin Olasky

Date
August 18, 2022

Categorized
Mental Illness

Tagged
, encampments, mental illness}

Homeless Encampments and Mental illness

_{Marvin Olasky

August 18, 2022

Mental Illness}

Fifty-one years ago I bicycled from Boston to Oregon. I was a Marxist then and looking for evidence of the American empire falling apart, but during the whole ten weeks on the road I didn’t see the one tourist attraction that would have delighted my propagandistic self: homeless encampments. Now every city seems to have them. Read More ›

Young poor skinny anorexic bald homeless man sitting on the urban street in the city or town near old wall trying to hide his face, homelessness social documentary concept

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
June 27, 2022

Categorized
Mental Illness

Tagged
, drug addiction, homelessness, Housing First, mental illness, Republicans}

Republicans Could Lead on Mental Health Treatment

_{Bruce Chapman

June 27, 2022

Mental Illness}

Tucked away in the gun law President Biden just signed is a provision increasing funding for preventive outpatient treatment for mental illness. This is an important step toward solving America’s mental-health crisis but only part of what’s needed. Read More ›

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Author
Robert Marbut

Date
May 23, 2022

Categorized
Mental Illness

Tagged
, encampments, Fix Homelessness, homelessness, Los Angeles, Portland, Robert Marbut, San Francisco, Seattle}

Robert Marbut on America’s Homelessness Crisis, Strategies for Uplifting the Homeless, and Effective Government Policies

_{Robert Marbut

May 23, 2022

Mental Illness}

Homelessness has reached crisis proportions. Few issues of human dignity are as heart wrenching as the wretched scenes in our most prosperous cities—San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle—where one can drive down main thoroughfares and be confronted with tent encampments lining streets that provide scant shelter for thousands of destitute people. Read More ›

Homeless man drug and alcohol addict sitting alone and depressed on the street in the shadow feeling anxious and lonely, social documentary concept

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Author
Caitlin Cory

Date
January 5, 2022

Categorized
Housing, Mental Illness

Tagged
, Housing First, mental illness, Right to Fail, serious mental illness}

How Housing First Fails the Mentally Ill

_{Caitlin Cory

January 5, 2022

Housing, Mental Illness}

The closing of mental institutions in the 20th century was meant to create better living conditions for the mentally ill. But it appears twenty-first century alternatives still regularly neglect the schizophrenic, bipolar, and other seriously ill members of the community. Read More ›

Silhouette of troubled person head. Concept image of anxiety and negative emotion. Waste paper and head silhouette.

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Author
Caitlin Cory

Date
October 15, 2021

Categorized
Mental Illness}

Mental Illness and Mass Shootings: Is There A Connection?

_{Caitlin Cory

October 15, 2021

Mental Illness}

There is a connection between untreated, serious mental illness (as distinguished from mental illness) and mass public violence. But instead of allowing that connection to instill fear, it should inspire compassion. Read More ›

Homeless in San Francisco sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Author
Caitlin Cory

Date
September 22, 2021

Categorized
Mental Illness

Tagged
, homelessness, human stories, mental illness}

Homelessness: The Mental Illness Thread

_{Caitlin Cory

September 22, 2021

Mental Illness}

In the middle of the National Mall at 5:45 this morning, a man shouted at no one in particular. Dressed in pajama pants, a T-shirt, and supported by a cane, he waved around a flashlight and occasionally struck his cane on the ground, all the while belting out a disruptive sing-song melody. Read More ›