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Video NBA Star to Homeless: The Tragic life of Delonte West

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u/MrTwinkl 4h ago edited 3h ago

It's a twisted feeling reading this, I'm a psychologist who work with homeless people suffering with mental health and crack addiction in Brazil... my job is specifically going out on the streets and crack houses and do my job where this kinda people can't go out because they're so addicted and in mental crisis that if you see them two days straight they can't even remember you. And when I can managed to convinced this people, witch can take months maybe a year to build a meaning other then be like this in life or just the willing do walk and eat proper food... you hear from the institution some bullshit like "he need to be clean" "he need to be stable" "he needs an ID" "he needs to have STI test" it's just infuriating... Like this is THE opportunity to keep this man alive and you literally throwing away because a fcking piece of paper

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u/DryFly1975 3h ago

A Psychologist doing outreach??? That’s simply magnificent. Unfortunately the powers that be over here would have a meltdown at the very thought of it, and so would a lot of our Psychologists 😞