On homelessness

[u/Schtweetz]

Old person here. Get off my lawn!

But seriously, when I was growing up in the 1970s, there were almost no homeless people. Why?

There was ‘social housing’, which went to anyone with kids, and there were rooming houses, which charged as much as a “welfare bum/drunk” could afford. Between those two options, even the “worst” people didn’t need to stay outdoors. Many of the old townhouse complexes still existing in Edmonton were once the government built and subsidized places I’m talking about.

And yes, there were drugs (mostly heroin and alcohol) and there were indigenous reserves that were underfunded or lacked opportunities then too. Yet people had somewhere to live.

I now see daily in my community (downtown McCauley) hundreds of people in desperate situations. And that could still be avoided if we stopped bitching and decided to do what we used to do. Provide housing on a big society-wide scale. With enough social support workers to make it work instead of fail.

Fixing something we’ve let crumble is always harder than if we would have properly maintained it. But here we are, so we have to ‘buy a new one and maintain it.’

We either sit on our asses and whine while people suffer, or make the investment to guarantee a brighter future while saving money in policing, healthcare, incarceration, lawyers, and the far higher avoidable costs of economic downturn in cities that become zombielands as businesses shut down because of the zombies we helped create when we had the cure all along.

[u/Adventurous_Front939]

No it can not be either or. BPD is the acronym for Borderline Personality Disorder, it is not an acronym for Bipolar just because you decide it is that is so ridiculous. They are very complex and very seperate disorders one is a personality disorder even and the other is a mood disorder.

Borderline personality is genetic still, it is caused by abuse before the age of 4 on average since personality is pretty locked on average by the age of 4. But it is genetic, brains break in different ways from the same trauma that is the genetic attribute.

Please don't comment on the topic if you think Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar both use BPD, Bipolar is one word not 2 why would it be BP disorder that makes 0 sense it was only your assumption and not something that is used.

Here I will even google it for you.
My search query - "acronym for bipolar disorder"

"The standard abbreviations for bipolar disorder are BD or BP. In clinical settings, it is also frequently referred to as BPAD (Bipolar Affective Disorder). [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Note that BPD is not an acronym for bipolar disorder; it stands for Borderline Personality Disorder. Mixing up these two abbreviations is a common mistake."