Re:TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
by b6 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @09:09AM
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I can't lay that much blame on society. Have you tried to take care of a mentally ill person? It's common for them to make it extremely difficult. Schizophrenia often seems to cause its sufferers to be absolutely certain they are not mentally ill at all. I've walked around for hours looking for a mentally ill woman to give her a care package, only to be attacked by her a few days afterward.
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Re:TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
by supreme_sublime on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @11:35AM
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It really is sad. The only schizophrenic person I've interacted with was thankfully on medication and it seemed to help a lot. A very sweet elderly woman.
I have spent a decent amount of time watching https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaUOTQQBc3EO5sVjVusMn8A
She is a schizophrenic woman in Boston iirc. Watching her delusions and obsession with various objects is fascinating and heartbreaking. I really want to talk to her just to try to understand better. I think it is impossible simply because something is wrong inside her brain. I wouldn't be able to rationalize why traffic cones aren't some kind of grand conspiracy of the Patriarchy. I think she is homeless now, I hope she gets the help she desperately needs.