Tonight I saw a homeless girl. She was wearing a hoodie and nothing else, nothing covering her feet, legs, or genitals. It was dark and some distance away so I can’t be sure but she appeared to be a teenager. Her movements were very childlike. She was scavenging through a pile of rotted fruit outside a produce warehouse. She ran off when a man approached her. My heart physically aches.😥
…This sounds like the damage is too great to fix.
People who have fallen that low should be given a home to live in and grocery deliveries and basic needs and not be expected to do anything in return. It sounds like it would be cheaper and less violent to just give them the necessities to live and let them finish their days in relative safety and stability. Because frankly… The damage to the mind I imagine is just for too much to get anything out of it NOR should the victims of such a society be expected to give anything of themselves back in the event that they do get all their needs met.
Too far gone… 🥺
There’s an increase of so called Housing First projects over here that provide housing to people that need it where they then can get help for their problems. This way they will at least have a place to stay and some sort of stability. These projects can have great results in my experience. Once people stop worrying about where they can safely sleep and eat, they’ll have more time to work on their problems.
You’d also be surprised how much the mind of some people can take. It’s very much on a case to case basis what someone can go through. I’ve had people that went through absolute hell that turned out fine once they had a stable life and I’ve had people that went through seemingly mild trouble that never recovered.