If she's resistant, it seems to be out of a sense of empathy for other people in her situation, rather than mental illness or some other issue:

>“I felt at one time that I couldn’t accept housing because there were all these other people who need it”

>“The point is not so much that I need help, it’s that there are a bunch of people who need help — 12,000 in this area, half a million in the country,” Twigg said. “Help should be provided for everybody, not just a few.”

Classifying empathy as a mental illness captures much of what’s wrong with society. Similarly, being unable or unwilling to toil away at a low paying it desk job may actually show some amount of sanity that the rest of us lack.

Who the hell classified empathy as a mental illness?

I didn’t say she was mentally ill. I said she is treatment resistant and homeless by choice. Talk to a social worker, her type is a lot more common than you think.

It's because her brain won't let her. She suffered from trauma as a child. I bet if you did a brain scan on her, she'd have an overdeveloped amygdala. She's in constant fight, flight or freeze mode. There are examples in the actual article demonstrating this.

A lot of people have overdeveloped amygdalas and dont choose to be homeless tho, for example me.