Poa Question Someone In The Impairment Loss Account Suddenly Pays

Why would homeless people's family allow them to be homeless?

A large number of homeless people are mentally ill or brain damaged and their families cannot deal with them any longer. My own father went homeless after being released from prison for pedophelia, having sexually molested me, my step sister, and a child he was babysitting (these are the ones known, there are probably many others). The family could not deal with him any longer. He was brain damaged from repeated concussions from sports and several car accidents. It's hard to know what caused what. Did he drive so crazy and have bad judgment from brain damage, or did he get brain damage from driving fast and poorly? But it released his inhibitions and allowed him to prey on the innocent.Pedophelia was not the only manifestation of brain damage. He was also irrational and quick to anger. He borrowed or stole things from the family. He couldn't keep a job. He pushed the family towards the poorhouse.It was an attempt to stabilize the family that led to my dad being kicked out of the family home. He was likely 30 by then, living with his parents. He had been lovingly called the black sheep until his conviction. After that we just did not talk about him at all. It's as if we were part of the family by adoption rather than birth. The family kept tabs on where he was and gave him some money occasionally. He eventually was employed enough to rent a tiny studio apartment and buy a beat up bicycle. Rather employed long enough in a union job to get unemployment whenever he was laid off. He lived in that apartment over 10 years  until he died of an illness rather suddenly. He never did admit to having molested me, only saying that he did not remember. Perhaps that is the brain damage, but I don't know how a person could forget a thing like that.It's painful to have a family member who is homeless. When people ask about your family, you either have to lie or become a victim of their pity. It's kind of horrifying, but the family was being ripped limb from limb while he was present so this is the best alternative. It is a relief that he is no longer around.

Does high-functioning schizophrenia exist?

I had a friend who was a schizophrenic and when he was on his medication he was little different from anyone else. He held a job (he worked as a contractor writing software), lived independently, and the only real outward indication that there was something wrong with him was due to the side-effects of his medicine, which were pretty nasty — they caused him to have a number of tics as well as feeling a frequent need to pace.His illness took its toll in another way, however — he was convinced (at least this was his claim) that his unmedicated state was reality and that the medicines merely altered reality as part of a plot by his doctor, his ex-wife, the police, etc. to keep him controlled and prevent him from seeing his kids. So, eventually he would always stop taking his medication, his condition would deteriorate, he would withdraw (presumably so people couldn’t see what was happening to him) and as he got less and less capable of coping with his situation, he would eventually show up at is ex-wife’s house demanding to see his kids (violating a court order), he would get arrested, committed and put back on his meds, ready to begin the cycle anew.