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I read the local papers from cities i used to live and read the most heartbreaking story from Detroit. A woman let two of her children die of the cold, she just had too many children, they all lived in a van and she couldn't look after them. It's like something out Gorky's My Childhood. She could have gotten help, it's not like there is none, but I expect she was depressed and isolated. ๐
I don't know about public or charity mental health services.
The bad thing is that the weather is very cold people will die of the cold. So people who refuse to be helped are in danger.