Their material possessions play a role: they are kinda surrounded by a pile of basically garbage mixed with useful food/possessions and they can't seem to tell the difference. This might be the most clear symptom. A sort of hoarding syndrome except indiscriminate and disorganized
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Like a normal homeless person in possession of faculties might have hygiene problems and cart around stuff that's sad, but it's a sane way of being in a bad state. I can see myself doing the same in that situation. But this other mode... they're in an alt reality
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Concretely, there's an old woman outside the starbucks I'm at who is shaking, clearly in mental distress, kinda ranting, and sitting in a pile of what I can only consider garbage mixed with some food
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Like I see cops/social workers occasionally step in to sort of bundle them up and move them along, but it is unclear to me how you even deal with people in this state. The cruel thing to do seems to be to institutionalize them in some bad under-resourced place.
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The default strategy of cities seems to be pretty much sweep them up periodically and restrict them to "bad" blocks so they're out of sight and not much of a problem for others. It's a sort of de facto concentration camp strategy. There's no guards or barbed wire, but that's it
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schizophrenia, but it's not perfect as it doesn't fully explain the physical aspect
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I'm looking for a word or phrase to describe the appearance/behavior, not diagnosis. Like "loss of composure" is a much milder normal thing that you see that's line 2/10 on the spectrum where this is 9/10
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"delirious" also works
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If neologisms allowed, unhumanization or de-existentialization, otherwise, zombification.
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