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Let’s keep the homeless and work to house them. Then let’s take the Orange Turd and send him to El Salvador.
A large number of our local homeless are drug addicted or mentally ill or both. We have a State Mental Health Hospital here. Many either leave their group homes or lost benefits in order to remain in some of the rehab facilities.
My son interacts with these people every day. No, he is not a therapist... he works at a state hospital and he sees them on the street and just talks to them, even when they make no sense and are probably hallucinating.
He says.. "It is important to acknowledge an individual's humanity no matter what their mental and economic status. Ignoring them, making them feel they are invisible, just contributes to their mental illness and trauma." Even if you have no money to give them, you can acknowledge them and look at them and shake their hand whether they make any sense to you at all. Positive interactions in a community contributes to the collective mental health.
He has a Masters degree in clinical psychology. He currently works as a data scientist.
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Thank you for your thoughtful comment.