Unstable housing can have a huge impact on mental health. Often a person's safe place is their own home, but some people don't have a home to turn to. I was severely depressed and suicidal when I lived with my abusive aunt. At one point, I would live with different friends or family members for a few weeks at a time. It was extremely stressful and made my anxiety a lot worse. I believe one of the most important things a person can have is a stable, loving home.

Of course it can, coming from personal experience, I've been homeless, sofa surfing, and it caused a whole heap of mental health and trust issues, caused me to be hospitalised, for becoming aggressive towards people who tried to help me, and made me so distrusting, the only person I'd trust was my counsellor, I became suicidal, and if anyone else besides my counsellor tried to stop me by physically grabbing hold of me, I'd lash out, it turned me into a nervous wreck, and took about 18-20 months for me to start getting over this, to start trusting people again, to start accepting the help to at least motivate me a little.

For me, any unstable environment or situation greatly increases my mental health issues. Every issue, me depression, my anxiety, my OCD, my PTSD all get worse. I was homeless earlier this year and that fact was definitely a factor in voluntary stays in the mental health unit at the local hospital.

i lived in a rooming house for women once and it was kindof a shared accomodations thing.. it scared me because i was in a new city.. and i didnt see it then but sometimes it feels like people just go so far down a road and the only thing is death but im greatfull god saved me.. because i saw a lot of people and still run into them and they sure look in hell. so now i just pray for them..

@A MyDepressionTeam Member, when I first became ill, after my father died, i was at home with my mother before she died. At home with her, i used to wonder what would become of me - but when I found myself alone in a one room walk up, soon afterward I met my wife, we married, and lived in her house for 10 years till my brother-in-law released money my mother left me . Then , we built the home we live in today....my point is, if we trust, unforeseen events and happenings can, and with faith will?, arise....don't dispare, things really do have a way of working out.

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