Invisible People report- "Homelessness and Self-Esteem: The Real Mental Health Issue".

[Lady Freedom Returns]

Factors of homelessness can certainly wreak havoc on one specific aspect of the personality. That is self-esteem. Living homeless in one of the richest nations in human history is already proven to adversely affect all three components that create our portrait of self-value. They are self-perception, social comparison, and reflected appraisals (i.e. the way we perceive others as perceiving us). As you might imagine, this mental portrait doesn’t hold up well to daily problems homeless people face. Many complain about feeling unsafe, unclean, uncared for, and invisible.

Low self-esteem is a circular problem. Left untreated, it can give way to worse conditions like:

-Suicide
-Substance abuse
-Promiscuity and other risky behaviors
-Self-damaging actions and comments

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[Lady Freedom Returns]

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