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[–] midnightblue1335 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I think that 1 in 3 stat is off. I don't think schizophrenia is common enough to make that kind of figure.

But here is how it makes sense- many of these bums actually inflict insanity upon themselves via something called "amphetamine psychosis". It's basically paranoid schizophrenia brought on by excessive use of something like meth or crack.

What I'm saying is that I don't think most of these homeless nutjobs are naturally crazy. They did it to themselves, or would become sane again if they stopped using drugs for like 12 hours.

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[–] rektumsempra ago 

you might be right, but people with a predisposition to schizophrenia are also more likely to abuse drugs, so the answer isn't that simple. I'm fairly confident that schizophrenics become homeless so easily because everything else in life is so much harder for them. Often they have a higher than average IQ even, since there is a correlation between IQ and mental illness, but that might just make them that much better at ruining their lives.

people with a predisposition to schizophrenia can also sometimes become permanently schizophrenic if they abuse drugs, since it triggers it. these people often don't know they have a predisposition by the way, so all the retards who glorify psychedelics (joe rogan, sam harris, terence "psychedelics don't work on stupid people" mckenna) should go eat a sheet of LSD, because it's mostly these retards who ruin the lives of those with a predisposition.

that being said, people can have the same symptoms of schizophrenia when they're doing drugs, but, like you said, not have schizophrenia. sometimes they only say crazy delusional shit while on drugs (actually I think everyone does on psychedelics).

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[–] midnightblue1335 ago 

I feel nothing but pity for those homeless people who are genuinely crazy; born with w/e conditions that just fucked their sanity up. I have sympathy for those men and women. I hate thinking of them being taken advantage of and fucked with by the homeless bums who aren't really mentally ill, but they're just fuck-ups.

I believe in a distinction between "genuinely dog-shit insane homeless people" and "heroin addicts who burned every bridge in their life by stealing from their friends and family to support their habit". Those people in the latter category? I feel nothing but disdain and disgust towards them.

But those schizos... this is why we need asylums. I have no problem with my tax dollars going to well equipped and maintained facilities designed to keep folks like that safe from themselves and others. The rest of the homeless mostly deserve to just be shot and done with.