the state of canadian accommodation is not strong
One of the things i find most detestable about both the US and Canada is that in countries with SO FUCKING MUCH empty space, accommodation is SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE. It's disgraceful. I have been desperately looking around for some way to live for cheap now that i am back in BC without a friend to couchsurf at, and it just doesn't exist
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Mental Illness is defined in different ways by different cultures, and treated different ways by different cultures. Most mental illnesses are culturally defined rather than medically defined, except schizophrenia which is the ONLY mental illness that is consistent from culture-to-culture, and has a flat rate of occurrence around the world at 1% of EVERY population (no matter race, nationality, income level, primary language, physical disability, or diet.... ).
Anyways, working in a mental institution in the U.S. I was fascinated to learn that for many mental illnesses in the U.S. disability is by this illness is defined by a lack of ability AND/OR interest in financial or domestic stability. Meaning: If you cannot, or do not, have the desire or faculties to maintain stable financial or housing independence... meaning specifically the ability to stick to work and payment schedules, live in the same place for long periods of time, and handle money without overspending.
Not having these "abilities" or even "desire" can literally have your rights as an independent citizen taken away, and be put under the financial observance of a for-profit or non-profit corporation and conservancy to handle any/all of your money FOR you.
Although in the assisted living institution I worked for it really was almost completely people who were schizophrenic and could not live independently.. sorta no matter what. I also heard stories from (the better) individual conservators about the range of people they worked for... and how the system operated for different levels of "disability" and the different ways people were put in conservancy.
Literally being homeless, camping on a beach for long periods of time and getting picked on up in a police sweep for "vagrancy" can literally not only get you a police record and possible jail time and the inconvenience of court dates to defend yourself... but also land you in conservancy if you can't prove a "a desire or competence for stability".
Our system is FUCKED.
Rich people can do whatever they want... literally getting away with murder. Money = sanity and competency. Poverty = insanity and incompetency according to the justice system in the U.S.
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