Silent Voices: People with Mental Disorders on the Street

We avert our eyes when we meet them on the street: homeless mentally ill people with their hand-scrawled signs, shopping carts, and cardboard boxes. Because of the fear and revulsion they arouse in us, or the guilty relief we feel at our own relative good fortune, we fail to see—no, insistently deny—any human connection with them.

Still, we're curious: How do these people end up on the street and how do they survive the stress and privations of such a life? How do they brace themselves again...