Just for the sake of my own learning, how can you help them?

In my personal experience when I’ve tried to help them they will take free clothes, food, and money… But if they don’t want to get off drugs and actually clean up their act then they won’t.

How can you help the ones who won’t help themselves? In this case the homeless encampment seemingly hurts business and communities.

I donate time and money to homeless shelters and things but the problem is just getting worse where I live. When these encampments pop up existing residents are less safe, and the sense of community as a whole goes down.

These are not bad people, but addiction is hell on earth it seems. I honestly want to know how I could help more than I do, but most people don’t know how to fix it either

Absolutely. I am getting help since im just personally not able to keep up the required diet. It’s practically impossible in America it feels like. Every restaurant is off the table and little joys in life would be out of reach.

Thankfully I don’t need insulin, and after losing weight I’ve significantly decreased the amount of meds needed to keep my sugars normal, but just wanted to post to show people without diabetes that it’s a disease, not something solely caused by just being unhealthy. Being unhealthy just makes the symptoms of the disease worse

Basically now as a type 2 diabetic I cannot eat anything and I’m still at elevated sugars…

Weight loss and a super low carb diet would work… Maybe… But if I even fuck it up for a week my sugars will be sky high again