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I wouldn't say causes - but the statistics speak volumes. A quarter of homeless people are schizophrenic.
by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I wouldn't say causes - but the statistics speak volumes. A quarter of homeless people are schizophrenic.
- minimaxir 11y agoCorrelation does not imply causation.
- brobdingnagian 11y agoHave enough heart to acknowledge what's going on in front of you.
- jordigh 11y agoThat's because the schizophrenics were basically evicted from the psychiatric hospitals. With nowhere to go and no one to care for them, they ended up homeless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_and_mental_health#Deinstitutionalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_and_mental_health... Also, how did you manage to relate this at all to TFA?
- brobdingnagian 11y agoThat accounts for some of the homeless schizophrenics. "Also, how did you manage to relate this at all to TFA?" Just what exactly do you think the real world implications of this attitude / policy are more generally? "It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t." He is saying: don't try to manage them. Fire them.
- DanBC 11y agoYou see higher rates of schizophrenia amoung homeless people in countries that have free health care and enough in-patient mental health beds. EG England, where mental health care is generally okay.
- DanBC 11y agoDepression and psychotic illnesses are very different. You probably have your causal link backwards: mental illness creates homelessness and vulnerably housed situations. The homelessness and vulnerably housed situations don't help people with a psychotic illness (contributing to medication non-compliance); and there is probably some situational depression there too. But it's probably wrong to say that homelessness cuses schizophrenia.