The flip side of this is that having been homeless you have nothing to fear. I had a period of homelessness in my early 20's - it was fairly self inflicted, I w

The flip side of this is that having been homeless you have nothing to fear. I had a period of homelessness in my early 20's - it was fairly self inflicted, I was burned out from the ridiculous hours in my first job and needed to escape from everything but I was already a decent programmer so I knew I could get back on the ladder - so nothing like what this guy went through. The good thing though was that it made me feel like I could cope with anything. Homelessness reduces your horizons to "where am I going to sleep" and "how am I going to get some food" (to the point were those two things are all you think about most of the time) and having come through that I felt like I could try anything because no matter how badly it went wrong I would be ok.