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= Q: What is it like being homeless? = A:Being homeless feels scary, depressing, empowering and humiliating.

If you want to know what being homeless really feels like, ask people if they remember their first night being homeless. It's usually the loneliest feeling in the world - like everything, everyone and all you ever knew has abandoned you, forgotten you or betrayed you. Your entire perspective of life turns upside down.

There is no place where you ever come closer to who you are, how you feel about yourself, than when you're homeless. Not only do friends want nothing to do with you because you've obviously screwed up big-time, but they assume you'll want something from them - a couch for the night, money, a ride - and not many people can give to someone whom they see as not being able to give back any time soon.

Source: http://www.quora.com/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-homeless

Here is another [|link] to a video that contains a guys experience being homeless!

A: My Experience of Being Homeless Just over twenty years ago, I experienced a year of homelessness. During that period of homelessness I was badly injured, both physically and emotionally. I have Asperger's Syndrome, a contributing factor to my homeless situation and a barrier to escaping homelessness.

I'd like to share a little look into what it was like to live un-homed and unwanted. My point in this is to spread awareness of homelessness and to perhaps wake up a little empathy in people. My hope is that people will do something to prevent homelessness in their country, their community, and their family. I also want to show that homeless people are not all addicts nor are they people too lazy to work.

Due to unemployment and record foreclosures, more Americans are becoming homeless. These homeless people need our help and understanding.

It's very hard for me to talk about my homeless experiences but I feel it is necessary. I find it much easier and less stressful to write about being homeless than to talk about it. This may in part be due to having PTSD but it is also an effect of Asperger's Syndrome. Writing provides emotional distance and keeps me from getting too overwhelmed by the feelings associated with those times in my life.

In the blocks below you will find several how-to articles and an editorial I wrote about "The Homeless" from my own perspective. Understand that some of these articles were written from a place of pain and anger so they and their content are not pretty. Homelessness is not pretty, either but it has a face, and the faces of homeless people are just like yours and mine.

If you want to know more please go to this link: http://www.squidoo.com/Homeless-Experiences