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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in a hospital and people like this are routinely brought in by police. Often times they’re on the medical unit until they stabilize, then sent to inpatient psych. If they don’t meet criteria for inpatient, they’re sent to a shelter when discharging, or sometimes they just give an address where they like to sleep (often times a store front, etc) and we send them there by cab. Often times we find that these people with severe presentation like you describe were in transitional housing and even had case managers, but preferred to be in the streets if off the grid, or were kicked out by landlords due to their behaviors; it can be hard to keep them stable and compliant with care.

Of course, this is in the DC area, not a small town.[/quote]

I had a neighbor who rented her apartment to a schizophrenic guy who just came out of transitional housing. He was OK when on his meds, but he decided to go off.
He was young and had a mom who lived nearby. The mom was a big tenants rights and disability rights figure. As he devolved into worse and worse behavior which involved lots of property damage, the landlord tried to get the mother involved. The mother would only attack and threaten - the police, the firemen, anyone who was called in to deal with his madness. She would show up, threaten, then leave him alone in his madness.
My entire building was scared of him and thankfully his lease was only 6 months. But it felt like a very long 6 months.
The mother basically did not see him as her responsibility at all but the responsibility of society at large. That's why he was in transitional housing and why he ended up in an apartment by himself. The family had no sense of responsibility over him.
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