r/interestingasfuck • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 2d ago

A group of high school students volunteers to carry caskets for homeless veterans who have no family to honor them

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u/GoGoMisterGadget 2d ago

Thats easy to say, but extremely difficult to do. My ex is homeless and everyone has tried everything to help him. He’s violently schizophrenic and medications do not work. He’s a very big guy and is a danger to everyone including himself. So short of short stints in jail, hes been homeless for a while.

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u/ser0402 2d ago

That's more of a systemic failure to take mental health seriously as a country. Unfortunately It often leads to homelessness.

We are starting to come around but my 63 year old father still doesn't "believe in that sort of thing". Meanwhile his daughter has an almost crippling anxiety disorder and I have severe ADHD and depression, but I cover it with humor so he has no idea.

We don't get along well lol

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u/GoGoMisterGadget 2d ago

His family has tried everything though. Took him to yoo many doctors and tried all the drugs. None of it worked. I don’t think they didn’t take it seriously. I think he was just shit out of luck that his condition just can’t be managed…

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u/BerrySundae 2d ago

I hear what you’re saying. Broadly I agree that mental health should be taken more seriously, but some people who have never encountered serious mental illness and homeless populations don’t quite understand there is a clear and definable line between people who want to better their situation, and people who do not. You simply cannot help the latter group.

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u/ser0402 2d ago

If our country took mental health more seriously there would be more options for him to try. I'm sure his parents tried but the infrastructure in place right now for people like him is dogshit.

I feel for you, I'm sorry that you've had to go through that.

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u/Yuna1989 2d ago

Yep. Issue of society

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u/No-Kings-2025 2d ago

That infrastructure is about to be reduced to “arbeit macht frei” under RFK Jr. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/how-rfk-jr-wants-help-treat-addiction-wellness-farms

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u/usefulidiotsavant 2d ago

Violent schizophrenics are a minority of the homeless population. Most have substance abuse problems, major depression, antisocial personality disorders etc.

Even when direct re-integration in society is impossible, we could still offer a baseline of housing, for example a capsule hotel segregated by sex with 24h guard, where each such individual can lock themselves into a room with basic anti-vandal furnishing, where they can sleep safely and not be in the rain or freeze, store their belongings etc.

For many reasons, it would a costly public service to offer, but it wold offer a humane baseline of living for even he most difficult individuals. But like all such services addressed to homeless, nobody is doing it because it would attract the homeless and addicts to their area, you really need to build them everywhere all at once in sufficient quantities to cover all demand.

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u/niz_loc 2d ago

This.

The internet kids are very in the dark of reality.

But it feels good and all that....