How long would it take us to exhibit bizarre behaviors

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Suppose for a bitter moment that you are homeless and have to live on the streets. You have no money, no place to sleep, no bathroom. You do not know if you are going to eat, much less where. You have no friends or anyone you can trust, and you live in constant fear of rape and violence. Do you think this might be enough to drive you over the edge? No one will talk to you, and you withdraw more and more into yourself. You begin to build a fantasy life. You talk openly to yourself. People stare, but so what? They stare anyway. Besides, they are no longer important to you. How long would it take us to exhibit bizarre behaviors if we were homelessand hopeless? The point is that just being on the streets can cause mental illness or whatever we want to label socially inappropriate behaviors that we find difficult to classify. Homelessness and mental illness are reciprocal: just as mental illness" can cause homelessness , so the trials of being homeless, of living on cold hostile streets can lead to unusual and unacceptable thinking and behavior. (Henslin, pp. 238-239)

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