Were you ever homeless?

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Have you ever been homeless in your life?

I was homeless once for a short time.	19%	[ 6 ]
I was homeless once for a long time.	9%	[ 3 ]
I was homeless several times for a short time each.	13%	[ 4 ]
I was homeless several times for a long time each.	0%	[ 0 ]
I am currently homeless.	3%	[ 1 ]
I was never homeless.	56%	[ 18 ]

Total votes : 32

Fos11
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23 Nov 2018, 3:52 pm

Hope? I have no hope, there is no hope for me. I know what my future will look like.

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23 Nov 2018, 3:56 pm

Fos11 wrote:

Hope? I have no hope, there is no hope for me. I know what my future will look like.

Well, then ... why complain about it? You’ll only make yourself even more miserable. Simply accept your f

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23 Nov 2018, 3:57 pm

Fos11 wrote:

Hope? I have no hope, there is no hope for me. I know what my future will look like.

No one knows what their future will look like, to many variables.
But one of those variables, your attitude, isn't helping because if you think you are hopeless you likely just won't bother trying.

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23 Nov 2018, 3:58 pm

You're 19-years-old.

Why do you think there's no hope?

Fos11
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23 Nov 2018, 4:02 pm

Because im a school dropout and i have several mental health problems, sometimes i think im nearly insane.

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23 Nov 2018, 4:04 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

You're 19-years-old. Why do you think there's no hope?

He thinks that his handicap of “anxiety” is worse than any other handicap that anyone else has ever had. He thinks that his chances for obtaining an education stopped the moment he dropped out of school. He thinks that his parents are being mean and unfair in expecting him to grow up, move out, get a job, and support himself on his own.

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23 Nov 2018, 4:08 pm

Fnord wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

You're 19-years-old. Why do you think there's no hope?

Maybe they are? He might not be mentally ready for a job we don't know his life everyone develops at different rates and experiences things differently.

Fos11
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23 Nov 2018, 4:09 pm

Well many mentally ill people end up homeless, its not a secret.

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23 Nov 2018, 4:10 pm

Fos11 wrote:

Because im a school dropout and i have several mental health problems, sometimes i think im nearly insane.

Dropouts can be successful.

Job options are more limited, true, but they do exist.
For instance, if you become a garbage truck driver, you can easily get paid more than 50k a year, no education requirement, and many companies will help you learn to drive the truck.

I would suggest working on your GED, perhaps online, and depending on your mental health problems and disablities, look into finding a person with knowledge of LDs to help you study. I may only say that due to my own frustration at having to take at least one more year.

Consider a trade school program.

Abraham Lincoln was both physically disabled and depressed, you can succeed regardless.

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23 Nov 2018, 4:13 pm

But he was not an autist, and there are more mentally ill homeless people than succesfull ones. And besides that im tired of living. Life is boring and full of unessecary suffering, and for what? Only to die old and miserable.

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23 Nov 2018, 4:17 pm

Arganger wrote:

Diagnosed autistic, ODD, anxiety, dyspraxic, essential tremors, depression (Doubted), CAPD
Suspected; PTSD (Treated, as my counselor did notice), mild OCD...

Wow. All of that, and yet a functioning adult. I admire you.

One professional diagnosed me with “classic”, yet high-functioning Asperger’s Syndrome. A later tribunal rendered a professional diagnosis of ASD: PDD-NOS with PTSD from childhood abuse by my bullying alcoholic father.

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23 Nov 2018, 4:18 pm

Never have been, and hopefully never will be.

I do know a couple of people that had to live in a shelter for a short while.

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23 Nov 2018, 4:19 pm

KennyIOM wrote:

Never have been, and hopefully never will be. I do know a couple of people that had to live in a shelter for a short while.

What happened to them?

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23 Nov 2018, 4:20 pm

Fos11 wrote:

When I was your age I was in a similar position, I jumped of a building but survived and I am now disabled and worse off I will spend the rest of my life stuck in my house alone. If there are groups or charities near you make use of them, I didn't have the internet to help me so I think you have a good chance.

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23 Nov 2018, 4:22 pm

I tried too kill myself too. But thats no the reason i was hospitalized, atleast no the only one, i was violent towards others too.

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23 Nov 2018, 4:24 pm

Fos11 wrote:

But you admit there are successful ones.
How do you know for sure that you will be miserable in old age, you are 19, no where near old age, and you yourself admit that you can be successful with disabilities and mental illness.
History is full of successful autistic people. Autism has traits that can help you get a job.

I myself am autistic, have anxiety, on top of a heck ton of other crap, and I don't plan on having no future. Life doesn't have to be boring, nor full of suffering. Life can be hard and happy.

By your ideas half this site cannot be successful. I'm sure very few of us want to hear that.

My own sister is schizoaffective. She holds a job and lives on her own.

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