Homelessness & Mental Illness :/

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• homelessness

[marinello6]

Heartbreaking and a real disgrace on this nation.

[bluesirsanchez]

I agree that life isnt all sunshine and constant happiness, my personal opinion is that anti-depressants for instance only deal with the symptoms and not the underlying cause of depression and here to i agree that simply prescribing medication isnt effective but everyone deserves to be happy and there needs to be more done to help those who are unable to help themselves.

[lindalu22291]

IMO this is much more complicated than "finding them a home" or providing medication. Many schizophrenics can get medication provided to them, but do not take it because of many reasons... one being the severe side effects, and another is because it is just a feature of the illness. I had a brother who was severely schizophrenic, and even with our support and his own apartment, it was still a huge daily struggle to keep him medicated and safe. Ultimately, he jumped off a bridge. RIP little bro.

[Godzie1]

Unless antidepressent bottles has a million dollars in them?

They don't help!

Anyone ever see a depressed person that just won the lottery?

[AbortedBabysInMakeUp]

council and h/a rent is going up by 80% wakeup you going to lose your home

videos are on my page please please please watch and act now

[janethec1]

i know all about there is to know about mental illness,am a severely depressed person and my daughter a schitzophernia at the age of 16yrs now 32 years.my god people who never known mental illness cannot understand a thing,but all we ask them is a place where one can feel safe, medecines and food is that so hard?.people abuse mental health patients in a such bad inhuman sometimes too.

[workstrength]

Lithium, like every other medication, doesn't necessarily work in every case. "Lithium is helpful in 70 percent to 80 percent of people with bipolar disorder. Lithium has been most frequently and effectively used to control and prevent manic episodes in persons with bipolar disorder. Lithium has been successful in treating depression as well." toddlertime. com/med/lithium(dot)htm

[TashaRichardsonFan]

How tragic and so heartbreaking.

[TheTiger5150]

This is the best video thus far Enoch video is a joke and doesn't solve the problem Make sandwishes an preach the gospel Yeah that will solve the problem for one day This is reality and it is not about Jesus or even god for that matter It is about a system that is seriously broken and needs to be repaired NOW

[aaronamccoy]

we spend billions on wars and we can't help our own people..thats some weak shit

[WonderWomanFan4life]

why cant they put these people in some sort of camp? but who would pay for it?

[VigilanteNighthawk]

@bluesirsanchez

I agree. Depending on the nature of the illness or the individual, it may very well be due to other problems. Depression by itself is a likely candidate given how widespread it is. Some people,thought, (not you) seem to want to write off all mental illness as a being the result character flaws or experience. Having been in and out of typical talk therapy for years and them having done nothing for me (and missed the OCD), I am somewhat soured on psychoanalysis.