Mental Illness In Homeless Research Paper

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Homeless with Mental Illness

It seems like majority of the homeless you see on the street day to day are suffering from some sort of mental illness. The stereotype of any mentally ill homeless person is schizophrenic, bi-polar or manically depressed. More than 124,000 – or one-fifth – of the 610,000 homeless people across the USA suffer from a severe mental illness, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Jervis, 2016) Why is it when you just look at as a whole that it seems very easy to fix or manage? All of these mentally ill homeless people could easily be treated through the proper medications that they need to function on a daily basis. If the government would provide some kind of assistance for the homeless,

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