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From what I've seen, this feeling might be due to the fact that mentally ill people are overly "visible" because they make way more "disturbance" if I may say.

by iXce 10y ago

MaxGabriel 10y ago
The seriously mentally ill are definitely a large proportion of homeless people. This is the National Coalition for the Homeless writing: "According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 20 to 25% of the homeless population in the United States suffers from some form of severe mental illness. In comparison, only 6% of Americans are severely mentally ill" A HUD Report has 26% of people in shelters having a serious mental illness [2] (Search "serious mental illness"). When I researched this a few years ago I regularly saw 200,000 people as the number with serious mental illness who were homeless and about an equal amount in prison (with people regularly cycling in and out of prison because of their mental illness). [1] http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pdf http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pd... [2] https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2010HomelessAssessmentReport.pdf https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2010Homeles...
- lobster_johnson 10y ago
  Another study found that a large number of homeless people have suffered a traumatic brain injury at some point in their lives: "Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto surveyed 111 homeless men and found that 45 percent of them had suffered at least one traumatic brain injury (or TBI) in their life, and 87 percent of those injuries occurred before they were homeless. Among the general population, TBI rates are estimated to be 12 percent, according to a 2013 meta-analysis of studies from developed countries." http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5227637 http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5227637

From what I've seen, this feeling might be due to the fact that mentally ill people are overly "visible" because they make way more "disturbance" if I may say.

by iXce 10y ago

From what I've seen, this feeling might be due to the fact that mentally ill people are overly "visible" because they make way more "disturbance" if I may say.

MaxGabriel 10y ago

The seriously mentally ill are definitely a large proportion of homeless people. This is the National Coalition for the Homeless writing: "According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 20 to 25% of the homeless population in the United States suffers from some form of severe mental illness. In comparison, only 6% of Americans are severely mentally ill" A HUD Report has 26% of people in shelters having a serious mental illness [2] (Search "serious mental illness"). When I researched this a few years ago I regularly saw 200,000 people as the number with serious mental illness who were homeless and about an equal amount in prison (with people regularly cycling in and out of prison because of their mental illness). [1] http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pdf http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pd... [2] https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2010HomelessAssessmentReport.pdf https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2010Homeles...

lobster_johnson 10y ago
Another study found that a large number of homeless people have suffered a traumatic brain injury at some point in their lives: "Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto surveyed 111 homeless men and found that 45 percent of them had suffered at least one traumatic brain injury (or TBI) in their life, and 87 percent of those injuries occurred before they were homeless. Among the general population, TBI rates are estimated to be 12 percent, according to a 2013 meta-analysis of studies from developed countries." http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5227637 http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5227637