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0 pointsroguecoder13y ago0 comments

41% of the population will experience a diagnosable mental illness, and 26% have one in any given year. Clearly there is more to the issue than just blaming mental illness or there would be far more homeless people than there are right now.

Discovering what support structures work and making those more easily accessible seems like a great place for a disruptive start up, except that health care is so incredibly messed up no one wants to touch it with a ten foot poll.

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vacri13y ago

You need to be careful when talking about the demographics of mental illness. Much mental illness leaves you still able to function and contribute socially to a fair degree.

run4yourlives13y ago

I did not say that the mentally ill become homeless, I said that many/most of the homeless are fighting mental illness (or substance abuse, or both.)

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vacri13y ago

You need to be careful when talking about the demographics of mental illness. Much mental illness leaves you still able to function and contribute socially to a fair degree.

run4yourlives13y ago

I did not say that the mentally ill become homeless, I said that many/most of the homeless are fighting mental illness (or substance abuse, or both.)

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