2006-08-08 02:20:03 · 18 answers · asked by mom2kats 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I live in FL and because of the moderate weather there is a huge number of homeless people. I try to consider myself a sensitive person so I would almost always hand them a couple bucks. through this contact I have come to see two different types. 1 People that are down on their luck and desperately want to get back to a normal life (these people deserve all the help in the world). 2 people that out of choice decide that the world owes them something and like to beg ( someone without much exposure to this type would be surprised at what assholes they can be). And as far as the theory that mental illness or addiction is the cause, think about the people that have one or both of these conditions that are not homeless and still try to maintain a life
2006-08-08 04:41:01 · answer #1 · answered by eek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know that being homeless was something that can or has to be cured. Boy! I'm surprised. Does that mean that all of the time I spent wandering three countries with my wife and child with no home to go to, hanging my hat wherever we stopped, camping for 11 years, cooking over wood fires beside lakes and streams in the mountains, plains and forests was a condition that needed to be cured? No wonder I was so happy! I was ignorant of my condition.
God! I must have had a terrible condition. I didn't have to rise every morning and fight traffic to get to my eight hours of slavery five days a week just so that I could pay bills, feed my family, pay someone else for my shelter, pay for a car, pay for insurance, pay for auto maintenance, and have a couple of days, maybe, of "free" time to rest and recuperate in order to be able to do the same thing again, and again, and again, and again, and. . . . I must have been nuts to have left that for the quiet open sky day and night, for the cities I saw and the people I met, for the cool mountain, lake, and river breezes full of the scents of the wilderness and what I thought then was real life. I wish I had known then that having all of the day to do whatever I wished, when I wished, in the manner I wished was a condition which needed curing.
Reflecting, now that your question has awakened me, I can see where I was soooo wrong and I wish I could have been "cured" of the condition before I wasted eleven years of my life as well as the lives of my son and wife. I don't think I'm going to awaken them as you have awakened me. I don't believe I could endure the pain and suffering it will cause them when they realize to what extent our homeless "condition" so negatively affected our lives. But now that we're not "homeless", and we have lost our freedom of movement, and we do do all of those things I mentioned not having to do when we were without a home, I can see how much better off we are.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for awakening me with such an astute observation.
2006-08-08 02:46:01 · answer #2 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many ways to help homeless people who want to be helped. But many people who are homeless are that way by choice or else due to mental illness. Many people prefer living on the street to working for a living, and many mentally ill can't do anything about their situation without taxpayer supported mental health programs, which have been slashed over the past many decades to almost nothing.
2006-08-08 02:24:37 · answer #3 · answered by Larry 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can speak with some experience on this one.
Some homless prefer that lifestyle, others suffer from mental
illness or drug and alcohol addictions There are some excellent
programs for the mentally ill and addicted, the problem is reaching out and informing people of these options.
2006-08-08 06:05:11 · answer #4 · answered by Spade, Sam Spade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
solution.... they need support and to address the reason why they can't find a property. It can be drug abuse, no money, mental illness, isolation etc Sometimes they just have bad luck and dont catch a break... lots of different reasons. But it's happening all over the world. and sadly isn't going away.
2006-08-08 02:30:34 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make them get a f ck ng JOB! Sh t! Quit begging the hard working people of our society for our pocket change! McDonalds will hire any bum! I can't stand homeless people! No sympathy here....
2006-08-08 06:54:01 · answer #6 · answered by TariJean 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aids
2006-08-08 03:12:33 · answer #7 · answered by DC 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. No cure for people that give up.
2006-08-08 02:23:22 · answer #8 · answered by eplayerj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being homeless isn't a disorder or disease.
2006-08-08 02:23:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a house
2006-08-08 02:23:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋