can lead people to awful and unfortunate situations such as illness and even homelessness. Studies have shown that one in four people are hoarders with the leading causes being depression or loss of a loved one. It is also apparent that a large amount of the homeless population was evicted from their housing due to it being condemned from hoarding. For instance‚ my neighbor Sheila was evicted from her house due to her unfortunate hoarding problem and is now what society considers as homeless. Sheila
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The Effects of Dual Diagnosis on a Person’s Life Jamie Sivels Georgia Military College November 28‚ 2012 The Effects of Dual Diagnosis on a Person’s Life People with severe mental disorders also experience a co-occurring substance abuse problem; approximately 50% of individuals with a mental disorder are also affected by substance abuse; 37% are alcohol abusers‚ 53% drug abusers (Medline). This is also called dual diagnosis which is when someone has a mental disorder
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to crack cocaine. My mother’s addiction left me as well as my seven brothers and sisters dirt poor. In order to feed ourselves we would have to go out and steal food from local stores and rob people. I got caught robbing one day and I was sent to jail. I got out a few months later and went to my former home in the projects and to my surprise my family had moved away. From that day on I have been homeless and living on the streets. There are various things I must do every day in order to stay
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Homeless Veterans in America Veterans make up eleven percent of the nation’s homeless population. While that number does not seem high‚ it means that about fifty thousand men and women who served our country are living in the streets (Shaw). More that half of those homeless veterans have some sort of disability. There are programs in place to help veterans ‚ but for many‚ these are not enough to keep in their homes. Veteran homelessness is commonly overlooked but has proven to be an extremely
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Known as the “City of Trees” for its abundance of greenery‚ my hometown of Sacramento‚ California could also be called the “City of the Homeless”. There are staggering numbers of homeless Sacramentans and a significant amount of people who lack consistent access to nightly shelter. On any given night‚ the homeless population of Sacramento County totals nearly 2‚700 people (www.sacramentostepsforward.org)‚ and this number is on the rise. My dream is to become a professional in the field of architecture
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Poverty and Homelessness Poverty and Homelessness After watching the film‚ Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story‚ I realized that if you try‚ you can do whatever you put your mind to. I believe that although the movie was sad it was very inspiring. Liz Murray was the product of a bad environment. Her parents were drug addicts and she felt like she single handedly had to hold her family together. She decided she was better off at home taking care of her mother who was legally blind‚ schizophrenic
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Caring for Populations: Assessment and Diagnosis Krystle Gonzales Chamberlain Community Health Nursing 443 Prof Schoenberg November 20‚ 2014 Introduction A community health nurse must be effective in targeting the population as a whole. The nurse will determine the needs for the community by using the data compiled from a windshield survey. As stated in the text‚ “A population focus also involves a scientific approach to community health nursing: an assessment of the community or population
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Even before the death of her husband she was suffering from the DSM-IV TR symptoms of depressed mood and a decreased interest and pleasure‚ which had greatly affected her marriage. But it is her subsequent actions that make us seek another diagnosis. As Tiffany opens up to Pat we learn that she has a history of extreme emotional reactions‚ unstable interpersonal relationships‚ difficulty controlling anger‚ and impulsive sexual activity. These are DSM-IV criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder
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Whip-poor-will explanation The poem‚ "Whip-poor-will" by Donald Hall is written beautifully with a sense of nature and family. Throughout this poem‚ Hall illustrates these natural occurrences‚ such as the "sandy ground"‚ "the last light of June"‚ and "a brown bird in the nearnight‚ soaring over shed and woodshed to far dark fields". The bird in this instance is a whippoorwill‚ defined as a nocturnal nightjar of Eastern North America that uses loud‚ repetitive calls suggestive of its name.
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When walking through a major city‚ have you ever wondered why most of the homeless community seems to suffer from a mental disability? The truth is over 50% of the homeless suffer from mental illness; in fact‚ the rise in mental illness in the homeless community can be traced as a direct impact from the Reagan administration from the mid 1980’s. After becoming elected‚ former president Reagan passed several acts which deliberately released hundreds of thousands of uncured mentally ill patients from
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