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Mental Health Humor:Blog Action Day 08 - PovertyAnd Mental Health
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Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. It’s aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. We at Mental Health Humor are happy to be part of the movement. This year’s subject is Poverty, and I want to look at how mental health plays a roll in it.
It is only fitting this year the subject is poverty. We are seeing one of the highest rates of unemployment in years. Banks are falling apart and homes are being lost by the second. No work, no home, no hope equals stress, depression and other health issues. Among the poorest areas there is a cycle that seems never ending. In an world that the average person is having hard times, what about the people who are already there?
It is no secrete “people who are homeless have higher rates of chronic diseases than people who are housed, due in part to the effects of lifestyle factors (such as drug, alcohol, or tobacco use), exposure to extreme weather, nutritional deficiencies, and being victimized by violence” says National Coalition for the Homeless, June 2008.
I have seen this first hand with the recent death of a close Friend a few weeks ago. His years on and off the street cut his life short. What also complicated the situation was he was dealing with a few mental disorders.
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Hundreds of thousands of homeless have severe mental illnesses
- Between 150,000 and 200,000 individuals with schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness are homeless among the 744,000 homeless population (total homeless population statistic based on data from a 2005 national survey). These 150,000–200,000 individuals are equivalent to the population of such cities as Dayton, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Providence, Rhode Island; Richmond, Virginia; or Salt Lake City, Utah.
- At any given time, there are many more people with untreated severe psychiatric illnesses living on America’s streets than are receiving care in hospitals. Approximately 90,000 individuals with schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness are in all hospitals receiving treatment for their disease.
With such alarming numbers, you would think there would be extra effort to fix the problem… But there lays the problem, how we solve a problem that has so many other factors and reasons for the problem itself.
In a world filled with greed, one might ask, ” why bother?” there will always be poor people. And hey are they not just products of their own demize?
It maybe to true, in some ways, but the underlying facts needs to be addressed. And with so many people living with mental illness that are homeless, this is in my opinion a great place to start. Now I’m not saying this is going to be a cure for poverty. There will always be a gastropod needing a shell and slugs that like things just the way there are. I need to have faith that when a person is balanced, there is hope and only where there is hope can there be a future.
Thanks for dropping by:
Chato B. Stewart
Mental Health Advocate - Cartoonist - and a few other things!
http://www.mentalhealthhumor.com
“Using Humor to Heal and Educate with badly drawn cartoons.”
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Mental Health Humor:Blog Action Day 08 - PovertyAnd Mental Health
Permission granted for non-profit use by artist: Chato B. Stewart.
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. It’s aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. We at Mental Health Humor are happy to be part of the movement. This year’s subject is Poverty, and I want to look at how mental health plays a roll in it.
It is only fitting this year the subject is poverty. We are seeing one of the highest rates of unemployment in years. Banks are falling apart and homes are being lost by the second. No work, no home, no hope equals stress, depression and other health issues. Among the poorest areas there is a cycle that seems never ending. In an world that the average person is having hard times, what about the people who are already there?
It is no secrete “people who are homeless have higher rates of chronic diseases than people who are housed, due in part to the effects of lifestyle factors (such as drug, alcohol, or tobacco use), exposure to extreme weather, nutritional deficiencies, and being victimized by violence” says National Coalition for the Homeless, June 2008.
I have seen this first hand with the recent death of a close Friend a few weeks ago. His years on and off the street cut his life short. What also complicated the situation was he was dealing with a few mental disorders.
FREE from the: Treatment Advocacy Center:
Homelessness: Tragic side effect of non-treatment Download a printable PDF file
With such alarming numbers, you would think there would be extra effort to fix the problem… But there lays the problem, how we solve a problem that has so many other factors and reasons for the problem itself.
In a world filled with greed, one might ask, ” why bother?” there will always be poor people. And hey are they not just products of their own demize?
It maybe to true, in some ways, but the underlying facts needs to be addressed. And with so many people living with mental illness that are homeless, this is in my opinion a great place to start. Now I’m not saying this is going to be a cure for poverty. There will always be a gastropod needing a shell and slugs that like things just the way there are. I need to have faith that when a person is balanced, there is hope and only where there is hope can there be a future.
Thanks for dropping by:
Chato B. Stewart
Mental Health Advocate - Cartoonist - and a few other things!
http://www.mentalhealthhumor.com
“Using Humor to Heal and Educate with badly drawn cartoons.”
——-*-*-*-*-*-*-*–*-
Terms Of Use:
The art work / Cartoons series Mental Health Humor cartoons are not to be edited or
modified and when used a tag line “used with permission of Chato B. Stewart” or
“reprinted with permission by Chato B. Stewart” and link to
http://www.mentalhealthhumor.com should appear with each cartoon when used online or in any type of non-profit print.
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How To Support Us: Visiting The site Daily and Telling your Friends and Family about Us. Here is my MS Word Document Flyer
for our blog. Please down load it, print it, and pass it out.
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Hey are you my friend on MySpace YET?
Stay up-to-date with the new cartoons and other fun stuff with my RSS feed.http://mentalhealthhumor.com/MHHf.doc The file is Word Doc 3mg
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