I ended up homeless for a little bit sleeping rough during my last episode. I was so psychotic I didn’t know I was homeless I just thought I was escaping the apocalypse. It was a scary period for me. People kept trying to sell me drugs and thankfully I still had a savings account so I ate. There were other people that were obviously mentally ill and we didn’t really interact with each other.
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Back when I was 20 I lived in my car for a few months.
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I was homeless for a few years, but always had a car to stay in.
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I didn’t have a car at the time thankfully. I did however lose my wallet and somehow conned my way 6 hours into another state and slept in a nice couple’s barn I used to work for. I still don’t remember how I got there lmao.
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I was homeless when i moved here. lived in a tent in a campground all summer, got a place in the fall
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congrats! on getting a place 15151515151515151
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Not this fall was a long time ago
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Yup I was homeless a week or two I got into a shelter through some of it ---- wound up sleeping behind a tattoo shop in the ghetto … Being homeless sucks but can be done safely - carry a knife pitch a tent in a remote location, try getting food stamps …
IMO the hardest thing about being homeless is finding a place to sleep at night …
I slept outside a train station. All I had was my coat and it was really cold. When the train station opened at like 3 in the morning I would go inside and sleep in a chair
I came prepared for it this time… I have A GREAT apartment to live in but if someone pulls the rug from under me I’m all set with supplies to go out in the boonies 
I live with my parents for the time being. My problem is I like to run away with no plans when I’m psychotic. Every episode I have I end up in another state somehow
Yup in my city all the freaks and weirdos come out at night - your either dead or close to it if you aren’t careful having a tent to sleep in is golden
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a little experience being homeless. lived in my car and camped in national forests out west for about a year or so. slept on the street probably 20 times in the cities instead of paying for a hotel. have ate at soup kitchens a few times.
Yeah that’s probably the best way to go.
I tried sleeping in my car a few times but I was so hopped up on pills I could not sleep … I guess that’s another story
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I’ve been homeless for a period of a few months several times. One time I just walked around outside for a few months, sleeping in the safest spot I could find. I had some interesting experiences. One time at about three in the morning I walked up to the back door of this bar and pushed it, and it swung open. I went inside and found $35.00 in the cash register. The next night I came in the front door and spent every bit of that $35.00 on beer. My parents would have let me stay with them, if I got back on medication, but I hated Haldol. I would have to go very far down before I would take Haldol again. Now I’m on Geodon and Seroquel, and life is fine.
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another thing I would do is go to the gym late at night, to workout, get a shower, and shave so I didn’t look homeless. that was just when I was in the city though. back then anytime fitness would give members a key that worked at any location. it was only like $30/mo. another thing I did to get jobs was went and got a po box at ups store, it read as a real address, but just went to your mailbox.
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There was a time I debated on buying a van or truck and sleeping in that until I had enough money saved to leave this state for good - that never happened … I was off my pills and though i had an apartment and a job there were demons in my living room so badly I was too paranoid to sleep there and began hotel rooms…
One time I was going into this nine story complex of doctor’s offices and sleeping on the ninth floor landing. Then one night I went down to the second floor and there were boxes and boxes and boxes of medical samples. I recognized a couple of them as the kind of drugs we have to take. There was also food stashed in a small refridgerator and other places. I helped myself to that. I think it was some kind of nurse’s station. I didn’t mess with any of the drugs. I did call a crisis line from the nurse’s station and chewed the fat with them for a while. When I think about some of the places I’ve slept I think it would be worth the extra weight to carry a strong flash light. I got to thinking that there could be scorpions or centapides in some of them. One time I was sleeping in a burned down lumber mill in Jackson, Tennessee, and I heard this coyote’s howl off away from the railroad tracks. Then I heard them yapping as they were coming towards me. I didn’t run, because I’ve heard that any time you run when canines are bothering you they get much more aggressive. I’ve carried pepper spray at times when I was on the street. That stuff terrifies dogs. It would probably be a catastrophic mistake to pepper spray a pit bull, because that would probably trigger its rage reaction.
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Well, since “close” only counts for horse shoes and hand grenades……then no.
…I’ll just say I slept outside a couple of times but it was voluntary. If things had gone a shade more differently years ago I would have been homeless a few times. Rubbing shoulders with many homeless people over the years I see that the odds of me surviving homelessness would be about 50-50.
I have family caring for me
But I was hanging out for lengthy periods walking for hours talking to voices about nearly everything untill I found my parents come with car to take me
Thanks God these days r gone
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