> 80.2 million Americans (25% of the 325 million total population) suffer from mental illness so severe they take drugs to treat their condition That's not the

> 80.2 million Americans (25% of the 325 million total population) suffer from mental illness so severe they take drugs to treat their condition That's not the same as having "severe mental illness". Doctors in the US hand out psychomeds like candy to anyone who has a mild depression. That's how you get to 25%. > It is a disproven myth that homeless people are more likely to be mentally ill than the general public. It isn't. You just took some numbers from one bucket, put them next to numbers from another bucket and then concluded that for some unexplained reason, it's actually the people who become homeless that have on average better mental health than the general population. Non-Sequitur. Mind you, I never said that the majority of homeless people are mentally ill, but there's a set of hard cases that you will literally not be able to help with any program that is meant to get them off the streets.