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Why do many mentally ill people become homeless?

  • 27-11-2019 6:43pm
    #1
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭


    Is it a case of mental illness causing problems holding a job and having no income therefore homelessness or dysfunctional relationships with family and getting kicked out before getting a proper job/education.

    or do people who become homeless, develop a mental illness? Is this the case in Ireland


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  • #2
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,652 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Weren't you nearly homeless? Then going to lose access to the WiFi?
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jeez!!!


  • #4
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭mr_fegelien


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Weren't you nearly homeless? Then going to lose access to the WiFi?

    Yea but I think it was a threat. That was after me ma caught me drinking beer on the bus in a flask.


  • #5
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,652 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    Yea but I think it was a threat. That was after me ma caught me drinking beer on the bus in a flask.

    Better than antifreeze anyway.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #6
    Shady Grady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Shady Grady


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    Yea but I think it was a threat. That was after me ma caught me drinking beer on the bus in a flask.

    Who puts beer in a flask? Go for something with a bit more kick next time if your making that kind of effort.


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  • #7
    randomspud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭randomspud


    It's because they are bad at being a person, OP.


  • #8
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,381 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Unless there's facts to back up the assertions, it's a case of chicken and egg really. One could have led to the other, and vice versa.


  • #9
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Due to their mental illness they can’t remember where they live and so end up homeless....possibly.


  • #10
    conorhal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Six of one half a dozen of the other I reckon.


    It doesn't take a genius to understand that serious mental health issues which make it difficult for an individual to function in society puts them at a vastly increased risk of homelessness.
    It's also a no brainer to surmise that living in a doorway is probably pretty bad for you mental health also.
    If I was sleeping in doorways and homeless shelters I'd be an absolute dipso or heroin addict for sure, because that situation would be far too much reality for me to cope with.

    The problem is the provision of mental healthcare in this state.
    In a fit of 'compassion' for institutionalized people (and not to save money at all!) we closed all the institutions housing the mentally ill instead of reforming them and opted for a 'care in the community' approach. This was predictably a disaster because the government utterly failed to provide any of the necessary supports to allow such people live in the community, and then government policyt dismantled any notion of 'community' for them to return to with predictable results.
    Now Dublin city centre is beginning to resemble the mission district in San Fran. I'm waiting for the Dublin street $h1tting website to come live any time now.


  • #11
    Porklife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    More importantly, why do you start so many ridiculous threads? Give a rest.


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  • #12
    partyguinness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Porklife wrote: »
    More importantly, why do you start so many ridiculous threads? Give a rest.


    Yeah I have said here before and I'll say it again:

    OP..you really are a strange fish.

    And I have been on and off here for nearly 12 years...you are head and shoulders the oddest poster here.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    partyguinness wrote: »
    OP..you really are a strange fish.
    .

    Way understated.

    "in before threadock"


  • #14
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    We needn't wonder at the volume of less-than-well clientele roaming our streets.
    We used to lock them up: the average number of inmates in Ballinasloe asylum alone about 100 years back was 1500.


  • #15
    Porklife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Yeah I have said here before and I'll say it again:

    OP..you really are a strange fish.

    And I have been on and off here for nearly 12 years...you are head and shoulders the oddest poster here.

    If they were at least entertaining or funny it wouldn't be so bad but they're just nonsense and actually quite insulting a lot of the time. Some might say if you don't like them, don't read them but it's the sheer volume of them smothering AH that makes them hard to avoid. Even his username irritates me.. the way it's spelled and with the small letters and how do you pronounce it!! AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


  • #16
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,376 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    How, because we have poor enough facilities available and don't dedicate enough money to the area.

    It's not as bad as the states but at least around here if you are mentally ill your option is a hostel along with dozens of other mentally ill people, some really bad.

    In my home town there was sexual assaults taking place in these establishments so they were being run properly.


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