26/05/2025
As a mental health provider and as mental health awareness month ends these types of situations is the awareness that should be known and understood. This story here is two folds for me. One there is so many productive and educated people out here that are productive upstanding citizens until one day they are not because of their mental illness getting the best of them and there is the second one. It is so many homelessness people out here with mental illness that have homes to go back to but rather but out on the streets due to their mental illness. There are some who cannot go back home because of their family’s fear of being hurt. Mental illness does not discriminate nor care who it affects.
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The Wall Street Journal last year wrote about Rob Dart’s descent from a full life as a lawyer, writer and father through his break from family, home and career to follow voices in his head.
He stopped treatment for schizoaffective and bipolar disorder during the pandemic and started wandering the streets of greater Los Angeles. His family desperately tried to help him, but Dart refused.
Then, in January, Dart went home.
Dart’s two years on the streets show how swiftly mental illness and homelessness can spiral into isolation and violence. He was shot. His few belongings were stolen. He wandered the streets while Los Angeles was on fire.
Dart’s turn toward his old life and recovery started with the kindness of strangers who read his story.
🔗 Read more: https://on.wsj.com/43sayxK
