According to Mental Health and Poverty in the Inner City, urban poverty cultivates mental illness and the data presented on crime, substance abuse are supportive indicators that mental illness reinforces poverty.
My theory is childhood trauma leads to problematic teenagers that lead to lost young adults which can lead to mentally broken older adults without the proper professional help that's needed but overlooked in poverty stricken urban communities.
The stigma that is attached to mental health has caused people to present a facade to mask their everyday mental health struggles.
This book is a fiction story based on true events that are currently happening in urban communities. The content is thrilling, intriguing, and educational. You will experience "Urban Life" throughout this book, the events will cause you to become a part of the community while you are reading. You will develop a higher level of empathy, self-awareness, and love for others after reading what people are coping with in their community. Some of content is graphic but it gives you more insight and visual of what everyday life is in "Urban Communities", The questions of "Why" are people's behaviors "different" or "Why" am I experiencing feelings I do not understand, will be answered after reading "Mental Health in Our Community".
You will learn what people appear to be "Facade" and who people are. You will learn that mental health is not only the person walking down the street talking to themselves.
This fictional story is very captivating and educational.