Heartbreaking Story of a Disabled Mom Surviving Homelessness: Life on Skid Row
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- In this episode of Life on Skid Row, we take a closer look at the life of Brenda, a disabled mother who has been through a rollercoaster of hardships. Originally from Texas, Brenda's journey has taken her from New Jersey to Sacramento, where her life and family fell apart due to her and her children's father's substance abuse disorders. Despite losing her three young children to child protective services, Brenda has been determined to regain her life. Still, sadly, it's nearly impossible while on the streets in Los Angeles's Skid Row. Real or imagined, Brenda holds onto the dream of reuniting with her children.
Over the years, Brenda has struggled with drug addiction, going in and out of treatment facilities with varying levels of success. Without a stable place to call home, she's been living on the streets, couch surfing with friends, and relying on public transportation to survive. But even with all these challenges, Brenda remains determined to overcome her addiction and find both a drug treatment program and permanent housing.
We'll hear Brenda's story as she shares her experiences of living on Skid Row, Los Angeles, and her ongoing search for her family. This is a heartbreaking story of one woman's resilience and determination to turn her life around despite overwhelming odds and how people need a purpose to hold onto.
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This has got to be one of the saddest stories I've ever seen. May I never complain again 😢
Incredibly sad, my heart breaks for the homeless. You can see the pain in her eyes, the regret, the wishing things were different, and missing her family. 😢 They are struggling souls, Pray for them!
@cristoerisorto4363 that’s right! Amen
Don’t pray for them. Help them.
@@thomasm961 you do both! They need both!
Someone needs to help this woman. Im gonna try to find her. Untill then... Let us pray for her. 😇
Your doing God’s word and work. Be safe out there and hope it all goes well if you find and help her
I am thinking those that covered her story know where she is, perhaps they can point you to her! Skid Row by way of Los Angeles or somewhere else. Mr. Mark may know! He’s An Angel! I Hope and Pray you can find her! God Bless You!
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@@manhuntruler2 Amen! Isaiah 58.
Thank you, sister! I was just thinking that if I were there, I would offer to take her into my home. May the Lord lead you to her! 🙏❤
How did it go, 2 months later?
This is beautifully done. I have been through a lot of the same things this woman has. I hope she is alive and ok, today, and gets housing and whatever else she needs.
Here in Tacoma I have counted in a 1 mile radius around hosmer, about 100+ tents that can be seen in the wooded areas and right on the side of main roads. This is growing faster than I have seen in years.
This is so sad. What's worse is that there are many other stories like hers. I really hope that she finds her kids 😭
It's rare to see someone THIS hollow. Her eyes are as empty as humanly possible. It only makes sense, hearing her story. Heart breaking indeed
This one breaks my heart. At her age and disabled she shouldn't be on the streets. We need to take care of our own citizens before helping others.
I am not an American. However, I would say that we (in the bigger sense, all countries) should look after others and our own, simultaneously.
This is an elderly woman she shouldn't be on the streets. I hope someone helps her get a room or something so many empty building just sitting around that they can fix and rehome the homeless.
I'll tell you, as a country we are in a terrible state of being, in my 56 years on earth, I cannot remember a time that is this bad, that even disabled people are living on the streets 😔😔😔
Non si comprende perché un popolo fiero come gli americani continuano ad accettare tutto questo disastro sociale soltanto per il profitto di chi governa l'America, ossia l'elite dei banchieri-usurai, che però governano anche tutto l'Occidente (USA&EU). Ribellatevi!
Seriously though but what’s really scary is I can’t even imagine being unhoused for 20 years maybe a couple of months but 20 years seems like an eternity.
Yep. I'm 63, I have an excellent memory. I remember as far back as being 18 months and in diapers. This is bad. I focus on the good, and doing things to shine a light.
Soooo sad homeless I 🙏 that this lady is in a nursing home care . Never want to be like this ever can't find your children please some one help this lady in this chair. ... where is the worth of all of this at she raised her children and now she do 5 no where they are I hope they are still alive !!
The "American Dream" is a lie, and a damnable one at that!
Absolutely heartbreaking, she’s spent all those years regretting and searching, I hope she’s reunited with her children 😢
Hey Brenda, please know that I am praying for you that God will send an angel to help you find a roof or shelter of some sort.
I feel your pain Mama.
I also hope your adult children see you and will come to help you. It could happen!!
Until then I pray God watches over you 24/7🕊️
There's got to be at least one kind soul in that town that could help you. 🥺
I want to thank everyone in the comments with nothing but good things to say and for having empathy thank you guys we need you guys please keep going and continue to have a good heart 🙏❤️❤️
I'm sure for some caring individuals, driving past her is a heart wrenching experience, but they just don't know what to do; and I imagine that's a hopeless feeling.
God Bless her
I'm praying that one day, she can be reunited with her children, and hopefully, they are willing to see her as well.
I wish that this lady could see all the good positive comments out there that people have put in support of her! But even more I really hope she gets housed soon.
😢😭💛🙏🏽😇 I Hope and Pray someone from her family, or someone she knows will see this video and will reach out to her! What city is she in? God Bless You All Always for Sharing with us!💛💛💛
My prayers goes out to this lady. I hope she can find her family soon. You can see so she has had so much pain in her life.
So sad, I don’t know what I would do if I was in that position 😢🙏🏽
Beautifully filmed. Grateful to have watched & that she crossed paths with you. Those who are disabled are on an expedited path to soul ascension. I pray for Brenda & for all of our souls in this earthly realm. The sun rise when you are in the darkness holds such meaning, as does the moonlight.
So sorry your in this terrible pain. Praying you find your babies and you get the help you deserve as a human being. And so much more. My heart is sad hearing your story aND I'm praying for you.
Why won’t our country do something about this?! Wouldn’t it be better for society if this woman had a safe apartment to live in? What has happened to our humanity? How is this ok? To actually become accustomed to this is unbelievable. And yes, i know homelessness is not new. But the breadth of it is new. And a society worth its salt wouldn’t allow this travesty on such is a grand scale.
You can force people to stop using drugs like fentanyl which come across the mexico border.
American society (United States) is set up to the advantage of narcissistic psychopaths and sociopaths. What did you think that pyramid on the back of the dollar bill means, to say nothing of the six pointed star made up of five pointed stars (also on the back of the dollar bill)?
The United States is a satanic republic turned empire which now, happily, is in the process of failing.
Many's the time I've been sorry I was born/conceived.
It's went to places like Ukraine and other foreign countries own it's high time people here in america gets aid yet cuts off food stamps to our p9r homeless
When those two guys walked by and ignored her while hanging their heads low shows the society we live in. Even if I don't have it I'll still acknowledge a person and tell them I don't have anything. I rarely have physical money on me but when I do it mostly goes towards the homeless. Most people seem to judge the homeless population on what they spend their money on but in reality people who aren't homeless buy alcohol, they buy drugs, and they buy fast food. So what difference does it make?
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What an invaluable job has Invisible People done. The best of luck to her.
😢😢😢😢 so sad that people have to worry about someone stealing their wheelchair. And so sad she chose drugs over her children. My daughter did that too😢
@@sarbantz 😢😢
I hate this. Everyone hates this. Even the wealthy "not in my backyard" types. So, why isn't this a major issue when it comes to politics/voting? It's so frustrating.
CAUSE, UNFORT THEY DON'T CARES ABOUT THE HOMELESS PEOPLE
@CRISTO È RISORTO! 🔥 (CHRIST IS RISEN) Could you please stop pestering everyone with your preaching?
If putting the homeless in concentration camps was put to a vote and worded nicely, I'd imagine a lot of Americans would vote for it. Despicable how they reject the humanity of human beings who have fallen into the pit of despair, but this is America after all.
@CRISTO È RISORTO! 🔥 (CHRIST IS RISEN) Yes, because your pressing your believes on everyone. That’s not preaching, that’s harassment. And yes, any homophobic comment should be banished.
Because (most) politicians in Washington, DC don’t care and keep voting themselves MASSIVE pay raises
NOW THE TRUTH COMES OUT. THIS COUNTRY IS TURNING TO hell. THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FORGET LOVE. REMEMBER CHARITY IS THE GREATEST NOT CRUELTY.
The spirit of the place she's at seems dark , cold and empty. 🥺
I somebody who can help her sees this video and assists her with tracking them down.
She needs a decent baths and a clean up. People should be helping disabled people.
God bless x
Thats sad her kids are not even looking for her and she need them the most
How do you know her kids are not looking for her?
@@kikisylvester7195 : Because they would have FOUND HER BY NOW!!!! Duh!😮
@@alexisvalere4095 not necessarily.
John 15:1 KJV
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again , and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 🙏🙏💗💗
Amen and amen and amen.
I know so deep in my heart, perhaps one of the things I Believe in the most, that Brenda, and every other person that was featured on this channel will go to heaven, I know that they will have the everlasting peace and calm they have always needed. Until then, I pray and hope for the best for them and for them to have a long and fulfilled life where they will be able to overcome their troublesome issues and that governments will enact better policies to support them and to get them out of homelessness and give them a stable home, food, water and everything they need. God bless all of them, I truly love them and I feel so strongly about it.
My kids won’t talk to me and I am 73 years old and sober
Money for Ukrainian but not for theyre own and disabled wt5 america
Exactly!!!
Disabled people should have a place to lay down instead of the streets and it's only going to get worse
Our seniors should not be homeless on the streets.
'If you see people suffering, and still only work for yourself, that is actually pretty sad',
Dalai Lama🌿🌿🕊
i love you
Btw, would be cool if the outro would fit the mood of the video.
Where am I after a sad story but a funky outro? I want to take this feeling into the next thing I do, not lose it at the end.
We've got one hell of a problem. Homelessness is in every single city and town in the world now. How those two men could walk past her and not give her some money? It doesn't matter she was on drugs. She's a human being in a bad way. If I was that lady I'd be terrified sleeping on the walkway.😢
So sad x
This is terrifying, and beyond sad. I give to Holy Apostles soup kitchen because they say they can feed 1 person a month for $28, but this woman needs more than food, there is actually little certainty as to what would be helpful in this case.
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I was in San Diego job corps with her.
Thank you for giving her a voice. She will come out of this and find her kids in JESUS NAME, AMEN!!
I really hope so. Poor lady.
Pray it’s not one of us due to unforeseen circumstances ? It’s heartbreaking seeing disabled people be abandoned like this ? How come BLM cannot help her and those in her situation with the 90 million dollars the raised ?
If each rich person in America would take one homeless person and support them, they’d still be rich and the homeless would be no more.
UNFORTUNATELY, THEY DON'T CARES & THE GOVERNOR RIDES PAST THESE THINGS EVERY DAY AND THEY DON'T CARES EITHER & IT'S A DAMN SHAME TOO
Rather, if the so called churches would do their job, there would be no more homeless.
@@laraduke3523 ,IT'S NOT UP TO ANY CHURCH TO HOUSE ANY ONE , THAT'S YOUR GOVERNOR'S JOB !!
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I would think she is eligible for SSI and maybe Food Stamps. Has anyone tried to help her?
Is there a video of the third person from the right on the channel banner? I kind of remember seeing a video of her but don't remember now.
I’m so Sorry Sir! I thought The TH-cam symbol next to a notification meant a red flag. I deleted a couple videos, Thinking I was getting red flagged for leaving positive comments, on other channels as well. I’m not it at all Zcomputer savvy, Not ashamed to say, I’m computer illiterate and don’t know what any of these symbols mean, I have to look them up. I don’t even have a channel or subscribers, but TH-cam says that I do, I don’t even know how to do any of that.. I know this has nothing to do with this Very Very Important Video I, kust Know that I Love Your Vhannel, God Bless You, keep Doing all that you do, you’re an Angel!💛💛💛😇
Please add as many advertisement to ALL of your videos as you can. Not everyone will or even can donate. Ads equal money for those suffering! ❤
No one should be on the streets no one senior and why are you not in a nursing home a retirement center all seniors need social security come one why are their homeless for on street ? Don't understand this. ?
MOST LIKELY SHE DOESN'T HAVES HEALTH INSURANCE TO COVERS IT !? & BELIEVE ME SSD DOESN'T PAYS ENOUGH FOR ANYONE TO LIVES ON, YEAH, THEY GAVE US A SUPER SMALL RAISE BUT, IT DOESN'T REALLY PAYS FOR MUCH!! I'M DISABLED AND I CAN'T HARDLY SURVIVE ON WHAT I GETS & UNFORT MY HUSBAND HAS JUST BARELY GOT OVER CANCER AND CANT WORK & ISN'T OLD ENOUGH FOR SS ! THX. GOD THAT WE'RE NOT HOMELESS YET BUT, WE'RE DEFF. STRUGGLING AND I ALSO THANKS GOD THAT WE DON'T LIVES IN CALI. EITHER OR WE WOULD BE HOMELESS FOR SURE THERES
as a disabled person who lived in a a group home something is very shady about some of these people. they can easily get SSI & find a group home if they are actually disabled. it takes time but they dont turn down real disabled people. so they must be spending their ssi on drugs.
Money for Israel and Ukraine and look at the state of your lowest. It is so sad.
GOD this country is BRUTAL and WITHOUT MERCY but SELFISH. We refuse to heed Robert Bly and Michael Meade and we may be dooming ourselves...🇺🇸💔💢😓🙏⚡
Please help her get housing
My God. Does she have a case-worker? This is so sad. It shouldn’t be.
Things like this are only going to get worse, it's Time for our government to step in and be our government and help We the People instead of financially backing someone else's Wars and putting their focus into other countries!
When is enough ever going to be enough...
Oh, tie it there to prevent theft of wheelchair.
DNA ancestry test might help her find them. Those test show who is related to you that has given their dna sample as well. Maybe someone can help her with getting one…🖤
I want to film something like this just don’t know how awkward it would be
who cares how awkward it is?
I seriously question whether it's even worth being born at all if you're not born wealthy and or conscienceless. I look forward to the day when the United States is nowt but an fading and bitter memory.
Plenty of lower middle class people in the 20th century busted their tails so their own kids could attain an upper middle class or higher lifestyle. My own family being one example. None were “born wealthy”. However, where I do agree is our horrible way we deal with the mentally ill and our modern “debt slavery” system.
@@philipdraper7284 My experience of life in the United States left me feeling like Simon (I think that's his name) in "Lord of the Flies." I don't think that struggling against injustice is a fool's errand, but I also hope that the Sadducees of the New Testament were right about the afterlife.
Exactly!!!
Sad she choose drugs over her family...
Or drugs took over her live removing choice, which is closer to the truth
I am sure that this lady did not ever think that this was going to happen to her and that her life was going to turn out this way. I hope she is able to be housed and gets the help she needs. If you ever have any updates about how she is doing I would love to know!
Yeah. We're the greatest nation in the world...coming to a neighborhood near you.
Sad
Wish I lived closer I would find her and help her. She’s vulnerable and shouldn’t be out there wtf are politicians doing wake up
I'm homeless my self it's a very hard life. I have a full time job but my criminal record haunt's me. Got out of prison in 02 haven't been back since. But sometimes I wonder if I'm better off back in jail. God bless the homeless.
Just why ... she gets no second Chance thats sad.
Hope her kids didnt inherit her genetic curse of addition
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I wish you're well on finding her children we are All God's children people need to recognize that fact may God guide her through her endeavors
Gods children😂
Satan is his spoil prefer son apparently.
The rest have less freedom then wild animals🤫🤘
@@HIGHER7RUTH You really need to learn how to speak, spell, and put words together better, troll.
All of your comments are messed up gibberish.
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I spell like that on purpose silly human bean.
Lov to UNDERstand instead of OVERSTAND🤡
Someone there an internet sleuth maybe can help her find her children
From homeless to filmmaker 2023
If the politicians can't solve it, then who can.
Aww I'm praying for everyone on skid row in California I don't live in California I'm in Texas it's not that bad like it is in California
I pray she finds peace. She chose drugs over family and this is a lesson for everyone.
List your priorities and if drugs and alcohol, gambling, etc are on that list, watch out
totally agree HOWEVER for each individual it aint always simple and black and white as that,cliche but unti we walked a mile in anothers shoes,we wouldnt really have an accurate gage on that persons health
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That’s true. It’s not really a “however” though. It really is that simple. I say this having made horrible choices. It’s not a judgment. I’m just saying, she’s accountable for her decisions and others can learn from these tragic stories.
If she chose drugs over her children, she’s not a victim but her kids are. The real tragedy is found in those who didn’t have a choice - who were subject to neglect and abuse and trauma.
Where are her kids?
She says she is looking for them.
If you want to fix homelessness the liens on the federal income tax returns have to be lifted that have been unjustifiable a placed by the child support system if this is done you will see a decrease in homelessness and a boost in the economy for job creation US Financial law states you are not allowed to touch someone's federal income tax returns that are below the poverty level there is a direct link between the loss of the federal income tax returns and homelessness
It's the decline of the empire my friend. 800 military basis around the world ain't cheap.b
If I lived close to her and had a big house I would let her live with me 🥹
She is an addict. Either recovering or active. You don't want her in your home. I learned the hard way. The worst for me was when I had surgery and all my painkillers had been stolen by an addict I was trying to help out.
Limit the amount of property one landlord can own. Reclassify it so that more rules apply to it than a barrel of oil or block of gold. Remove the speculators and accept the property price crash that follows. Then we begin again.
@@sarbantz Ok but how is that relevant to property market reform?
Portugal’s approach might be a good way to eliminate each of those “fake Coca Cola” options though. It has reduced deaths
What comes around goes around. If you had been there for your children when they needed you they’d be there for you now when you need them.
Got to do drugs.
Her kids probably TH-camrs or Tiktokers now, and living in mansions.. Not even knowing she’s looking for them smh
Like my own sister
🥲this is so freaking sad,she may have made, wrong choices in her life,but she doesn't deserve to be homeless on the streets in a wheelchair,I hope she finds her family,I pray they will help her 🥲