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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 684205" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I think it's more of a problem with neurological impaired prople. The mentally ill may not care how they look or smell if they are extremely depressed. But actually the nurses, when I was in a psychiatric hospital, told me that they can tell a depressed person is improving when hygiene goes back to normal.</p><p></p><p>A nerologically impaired person, such as somebody on the autism spectrum, may really not get the need to be clean. We had a real struggle with our son. He really didn't care what others thought. And he would say,"why take a shower? You just get dirty again." "Why wear clean clothes? They just get dirty." "Nobody cares how I smell."</p><p>Somewhere along the line, probably his case manager, taught him that even if HE thought these things were silly, other people valued them. (Heaven forbid he would take this same advice from his parents, right?)</p><p>It has helped. Sometimes he still puts on smelly clothes or needs a shower, but it is FAR better. He likes his food service job and knows that he has to have good hygiene there.</p><p>This is a real problem for many young adults who don't think like most do.</p><p>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 684205, member: 1550"] I think it's more of a problem with neurological impaired prople. The mentally ill may not care how they look or smell if they are extremely depressed. But actually the nurses, when I was in a psychiatric hospital, told me that they can tell a depressed person is improving when hygiene goes back to normal. A nerologically impaired person, such as somebody on the autism spectrum, may really not get the need to be clean. We had a real struggle with our son. He really didn't care what others thought. And he would say,"why take a shower? You just get dirty again." "Why wear clean clothes? They just get dirty." "Nobody cares how I smell." Somewhere along the line, probably his case manager, taught him that even if HE thought these things were silly, other people valued them. (Heaven forbid he would take this same advice from his parents, right?) It has helped. Sometimes he still puts on smelly clothes or needs a shower, but it is FAR better. He likes his food service job and knows that he has to have good hygiene there. This is a real problem for many young adults who don't think like most do. . [/QUOTE]
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