The #freeBrittany movement left a broken woman twirling alone in her living room, reportedly hooked on meth. In New York City, a homeless man slammed a random woman’s head into a moving subway. School closures during the pandemic accelerated a mental health crisis in our youth.
We are about to have a long overdue conversation about a topic that nobody wants to touch: mental health. Mental illness is unpleasant, after all. Those with issues might be living in homeless shelters and smell like old socks and urine. Their issues are expensive and messy. But the problems have become impossible to ignore with folks living in tents in Prospect Park and having full scale meltdowns on public transportation.
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