The Homeless: Discarded Like Garbage

Homeless affects millions of people every year in the United States, poor children wandering through the streets, prostitutes everywhere, and Vietnamese veterans with mental disorders. In today's recession, homelessness is becoming common in large cities such as Los Angeles. Because the eastern part of the city (commonly known as Skid Row) has the most homeless people in my country. In this area, camping tents are frequently seen on the streets, cardboard boxes on sidewalks can also be used as temporary beds for people without roofs.

Although it is near but not known to most people, Janice is wearing dirty blankets and clothes, arranging six garbage bags on the sidewalk where they go to bed every night. "I am not homeless," said when she was asked about the period of living in the street. "I am waiting for a movie star." Like other homeless people interviewed in this article, Janice only uses the name to indicate himself. According to the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Bureau, out of 610,000 homeless people in the United States, more than 124,000 people (or 1 in 5 people) suffer from severe psychiatric illness. They are afflicted with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression - they can all be controlled by appropriate medication and counseling, but they can be debilitating if not treated. In the absence of such concerns, their plight will cost the federal government several million dollars per year to purchase houses and services and to expand their illness.

Homeless homeless people affect millions of Americans each year, and about one third of them have severe mental disorders. In Las Cruces there are many homeless people suffering from mental illness. Lascluses does not provide adequate service to homeless mentally disabled people. It is necessary to provide them with support, protection, treatment and rehabilitation. Surveys are being conducted to prevent mental illnesses leading to homelessness

In a survey of 529 homeless people in 1988, they divided them into original psychiatric inpatients and untreated psychiatric patients. People hospitalized before are three times more likely (28% to 9%) to get some food from the garbage box, possibility to use the trash can as their "main food source (8% to 1%) I was interviewed that a homeless man was violent or injured, but this group was deprived of weapons more than nonpsychiatric patients, suffered violence, was threatened, was hurt Or limb fracture)