They're only passing through you in the end...

[chaosandoldnite]

Again, there is no heat-wave today, which I am entirely thankful to God for. Hopefully we bypassed it while up north, and I won't have to deal with dreadful heat again until next year. We had more record-breaking heatwaves this summer than in many, many previous years.
I have had an incredibly odd morning thus far. Waking up wasn't spectacular (is

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[chaosandoldnite]

Lisa is likely schizophrenic, because I don't think that her state is drug-induced. She lives in another world, but has a grip on reality enough to be able to play the socialist system. She knows what shelters to go to for food and clothing, and I believe she even sleeps in them every once in a while.
When she's arrested, the police bring her to a hospital where she stays for a day or two, and then decides to sign herself out to live on the front steps of Jarvis Street Baptist Church.
When John and I were trying to help her, she became attached to us to a point where she would follow us around the area and spy. When she met Vicky she obviously disliked her, which Vicky picked up on right away.
Every social help program in downtown Toronto offered no help except for a Christian named Ron Farr who runs a men's shelter. My friend Harry and I were going to bring her to a huge bbq that Ron does every so often, but she refused to go and ignored us. I believe that she would rather live off the food that we gave her instead of actually getting help.
She told me that she used to work in a massage parlour in Oshawa and was connected with the Hells Angels. I don't know if its true or not, but I have no reason to doubt it.
I think by helping her it only makes her worse. She'll become attached to any young guy who tries which is not good at all. What needs to happen, really, is for the government to force her to take some sort of psychiatric medication to balance her out so that she can help herself. But, of course, the government won't violate her free will.
What can you do?

[kruszer]

If she won't see a counsellor, maybe a counsellor should see her. I mean strike up a conversation with her and see where it goes - obviously a female counsellor would be best and from my experience these types of people tend to be very territorial - especially if they're pan-handling, but you never know.

I personally have sat down on the sidewalk with the street kids who hang out in the downtown market pan-handling all day and befriended quite a number of them. Most of them have amazing stories to share - I guess maybe I can relate to them more because I'm not quite as removed from their lives as others are. It's just a matter of a right turn over a left one and we'd have all wound up on the same road together.

Anyhow, maybe you could look around and see if there are down to earth and approachable/non-threatning female counsellors who would be willing to become a regular familiar face to Lisa.