OOOOPS! You met some of the chronically mentally ill walking around the
streets of St. Paul, Andrew?
Darn, usually they lock us away in the jails or the hospitals. We're that pox
on society that people don't like to deal with or even look at. Heaven forbid
that they try and understand what we are going thru and dealing with each day.
Too hard for them to comprehend.
It's funny, my kids think I shouldn't dress as nice as I do either. I don't
get my clothes at Joseph's Coat, but I guess I don't fit people's preconceived
ideas of what a mentally ill person is supposed to look like. I'm supposed to
look crazy or deranged or poor or dirty or somethinng all the time.
BTW, at the next meeting ot the Ramsey County Mental Health Advisory Committee,
which will be May 17th from 6-8pm at 1919 University Avenue, we will be
discussing the Mayor Kelly's new effort to end chronic homelessness in the city
and the Governor's plan to end long term homelessness. We will be sending
invites to both the Mayor's office and the Governor's office to send someone to
talk with us. I don't know if anyone will come from either office but tell
your friends they are welcome to come and try to get some answers. We are
always a tough audience (we ask hard questions) but that's our job.
In the meantime, Andrew, respect and understanding are always good things to
give a person that is living with a mental illness. The fact that they are
still surviving, even though it might be just barely, they deserve a ton of
respect. God bless them.
Renée Jenson
Como
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