Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless in Seattle

Re:Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless i... by dpau on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:16AM (#19682229)

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.”

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Re:Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless i... by ohyes on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:55AM (#19682559)

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.

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Re:Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless i... by dondawest on Sunday April 21, 2019 @04:52PM (#19714502)

Who the hell classified empathy as a mental illness?

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Re:Olympic medal-winning cyclist Rebecca Twigg is homeless i... by dondawest on Sunday April 21, 2019 @04:51PM (#19714500)

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.

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