Oh no. Oh no no no.
Some friends from Toronto visited us recently and stayed 3 days fully enjoying themselves. When it came time to leave I drove our friend and her 5 yr old daughter to Hamilton to catch the GO train back to Toronto. As we neared the GO Centre in Downtown Hamilton we were treated to a grown man deficating on the sidewalk. You might think this is too gross a thing to post on the blog, but it wasn't the act that our dear friend and I were upset about. It was that our society completely underfunds mental health which this poor soul truly needed. Can anyone make a case for our health system in this instance? Go a little unbalanced temporarily and you never live it down. Be a little unbalanced for life and be mostly ignored.
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2 comments:
So, true... so true.
I agree the system is totally under funded...but, let me be a little jaded here after working for 15 years with people involved in that system and as a consumer myself...there will always be at least one guy shitting on the sidewalk and there will always be homeless people. Now, hopefully with proper funding there won't be so many and those who are in the hardest vulnerable positions will have ongoing support where ever they are at.
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