Hello windschatten and All, This might be like diagnosing heart disease via forum.
Without more on site information forum opinions are farts in a windstorm.
I tend to agree with in Vincible ... maybe incarceration is the way to get mental care and meds to this homeless man in the UK.
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“He joined in the marathon and completed the latter part of the race.
“At the time he hadn’t fully quite appreciated that he was doing anything wrong.
“He dedicated the completion of it to his seven-year-old son and to homeless people to inspire them that good things can happen to those that are less fortunate.”
The London marathon chief executive, Nick Bitel, said the episode could be seen to damage the reputation and integrity of the race, regarded as one of the best organised in the world, the court heard.
Skupian has lived in the UK for around 11 years and suffered a neck injury in a serious car crash at the end of last year, forcing him to take sick leave from a catering trade job, Jamroz said.
Around the same time he separated from his wife and became homeless.
Shortly before the race Skupian suffered a short, temporary breakdown in his mental state, she added.
...... She said: “He wanted to be there, he was excited. He wanted to see the runners.
“He says by chance he saw a race identifier on the floor.
“In his excitement he picked up the identifier thinking this was his opportunity to compete in the marathon and that this was in fact a dream come true for him.
....... He was arrested after police searched the multi-faith prayer room at Heathrow airport, where he was found with items including a primary school worker’s ID card and a pink diary holding overtime hours worked by airline staff.
Skupian viewed the airport as a temporary home and would pick up left-behind objects to pass to lost property, claiming he was going to return the items, the court heard.
Skupian, who wore a grey jumper and used a Polish translator, pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity last month to fraud by false representation and to three unrelated counts of theft.
“The offences are so serious as only a prison sentence will suffice,” magistrate Michael O’Gorman said.
Skupian was sentenced to 13 weeks for the fraud and three weeks for the theft offences, to be served consecutively.
From Washington Post .... Homeless in America
Excerpt:
Nearly all of the long-term homeless have tenuous family ties and some kind of disability, whether it is a drug or alcohol addiction, a mental illness, or a physical handicap. While they make up a small share of the homeless population, they are disproportionately costly to society: They consume nearly 60 percent of the resources spent on emergency and transitional shelter for adults,
and they occupy hospitals and jails at high rates. [emphasis added]
Because the relatively small number of people living on the streets who suffer from paranoia, delusions and other mental disorders are very visible, they have come to stand for the entire homeless population -- despite the fact that they are in the minority. As a result, many people falsely concluded that an increase in homelessness in the 1980s resulted from the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric care in the 1960s and 1970s.
In my own research, I have calculated that the rate of severe mental illness among the homeless (including families and children) is 13 to 15 percent. Among the much smaller group of single adults who are chronically homeless, however, the rate reaches 30 to 40 percent. For this population, mental illness is clearly a barrier to exiting homelessness.
Cheers, Neal
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