What is Homelessness?
Federal Definition of Homeless - http://www.hud.gov/homeless/definition.cfm
The United States Code contains the official federal definition of homeless.
In Title 42, Chapter 119, Subchapter I, homeless is defined as:
(a) In general
General definition of homeless individual - the term “homeless” or “homeless individual or homeless person” includes:
- an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and
- an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is —
- a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill);
- an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or
- a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. (car, park, etc.)
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Obsessive-compulsivism as defined by 12-Step Programs is an illness in which the individual is unable to stop a harmful, self-destructive behavior or thought pattern. The illness may manifest itself in abuse of ay substance or behavior, including: excessive drinking, eating, spending, sex, work, gambling, anorexia, bulimia, anger, guilt, or co-dependency.
Obsessions are repeated, unwanted thoughts, which lead to self destructive behaviors. For example, the alcoholic cannot get rid of the thought of a drink, just as the co-dependent may dwell obsessively on a relationship. Obsession is often accompanied by strange mental blank spots: cannot remember the humiliation of previous sprees, and so are unprotected from the next one. Somehow, they imagine, this time things will be different.
Eventually such obsessions give rise to compulsions. Compulsions are uncontrollable behaviors, which we cannot keep from performing (e.g. binging, drinking, gambling) despite the greatest exertion of will power. Even self-knowledge about our compulsions fails to stop them-—we simply do not have the power to resist their pull. The problem is pervasive and worsens over time.
But there is help – 12 Step Programs.
Obsessive-Compulsivism
12 Step Programs are a spiritual pathway designed to move one through *addiction and **addictive behavior. 12 Step programs are based on a set of spiritual principles which allows a person to step through, in consciousness, from one level to another utilizing and incorporating the principles in their lives. Thus providing them with a new way of thinking, speaking, and being.
12 Step Programs are a set of spiritual principles designed to teach a person a new way of life. By implementing the spiritual principles in their lives they began to unfold and develop a rigorist spiritual program.
It is not a "self-help" program. The 12-Step Program pinciples become a "way of life."
*Addiction is a dis-ease.
**Addictive behavior are behaviors developed as a result of the dis-ease. (i.e. manipulative behavior, lying stealing, etc.)
Rev. Vaile Leonard
12 Step Programs
Some of the Spiritual Principles associated with 12 Step Programs are:
Surrender
Honesty
Hope
Faith
Courage
Self-Integrity
Willingness
Humility
Brotherly Love
Perseverance
Spiritual Awakening
Service
