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An Open Letter to the Honorable Mayor Rahm Emanuel
The Honorable Rahm Emanuel
Office of the Mayor
121 North LaSalle Street
Chicago City Hall 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60602
Re: Debbie Delgado‘s Question
Your Honor:
Respectfully, when will Debbie Delgado receive an answer from you about the status of her city mental health services? Will it be before, after the runoff election or ever?
To refresh you, Debbie Delgado, a former mental health clinic consumer who stood face-to-face with you on at the Wicker Park Committee Board meeting in March with you and, in desperation, confronted you about receiving ineffective mental services upon the closure of the City’s Northwest Mental Health Clinic, 2354 N. Milwaukee Avenue where she and her son received promising recovery services.
Ms. Delgado suffered when both of her sons were shot in 2006 by an assailant. Ms. Delgado experienced Undue mental health issues arose when her oldest son died in his brother’s arms; all three victims by a police system that did not protect them.
I know that you “are eager to get to the substance of residents’ concerns.” Ms. Delgado and her surviving son, are so traumatized that when the Northwest Mental Health Clinic, their post-traumatic shock disorder (PTSD) worsened because they are unable to receive comparable mental health services from their reassigned clinic. Their newly assigned clinic has insufficient psychiatric care and causes Ms. Delgado and her son to pass by three cemeteries to get to the new clinic. Now Delgado’s son refuses to leave his room. Ms, Delgado simply wants to know why you closed “her” clinic without regard to the consequences to her, her son, and other Chicagoans living with mental illness.
I’m sure Ms. Delgado, in her effort to help her remaining family to survive, is not concerned about budget cuts, or other administrative matters. She just want to know why you closed “her” clinic. To date, through various attempts, you have avoided answering her.
So when will you answer her? I think she’s entitled to know. I’d also like to know so that I can stand and others in Chicago’s Mental Health Movement can stand beside her and support her in any answer you give. Why did you close “her” clinic?
Very respectfully,
Kathleen A. Powers, AAS
Advocate-At-Large
5625 North Winthrop Avenue #503
Chicago, IL 60660-4443
Your Honor:
Respectfully, when will Debbie Delgado receive an answer from you about the status of her city mental health services? Will it be before, after the runoff election or ever?
To refresh you, Debbie Delgado, a former mental health clinic consumer who stood face-to-face with you on at the Wicker Park Committee Board meeting in March with you and, in desperation, confronted you about receiving ineffective mental services upon the closure of the City’s Northwest Mental Health Clinic, 2354 N. Milwaukee Avenue where she and her son received promising recovery services.
Ms. Delgado suffered when both of her sons were shot in 2006 by an assailant. Ms. Delgado experienced Undue mental health issues arose when her oldest son died in his brother’s arms; all three victims by a police system that did not protect them.
I know that you “are eager to get to the substance of residents’ concerns.” Ms. Delgado and her surviving son, are so traumatized that when the Northwest Mental Health Clinic, their post-traumatic shock disorder (PTSD) worsened because they are unable to receive comparable mental health services from their reassigned clinic. Their newly assigned clinic has insufficient psychiatric care and causes Ms. Delgado and her son to pass by three cemeteries to get to the new clinic. Now Delgado’s son refuses to leave his room. Ms, Delgado simply wants to know why you closed “her” clinic without regard to the consequences to her, her son, and other Chicagoans living with mental illness.
I’m sure Ms. Delgado, in her effort to help her remaining family to survive, is not concerned about budget cuts, or other administrative matters. She just want to know why you closed “her” clinic. To date, through various attempts, you have avoided answering her.
So when will you answer her? I think she’s entitled to know. I’d also like to know so that I can stand and others in Chicago’s Mental Health Movement can stand beside her and support her in any answer you give. Why did you close “her” clinic?
Very respectfully,
Kathleen A. Powers, AAS
Advocate-At-Large
5625 North Winthrop Avenue #503
Chicago, IL 60660-4443
Saturday, February 7, 2015
THE QUITTER
It must be really hard being you
Sitting still
No ambition
Not being able to see anything through to fruition
Who told you you can't want more
So much pain
So much self doubt
Not being able to feel
Cold to the feelings of others
Being "content" doing nothing special
Who hurt you
You give up before you even start
Grad School because....well, you know
Pets...endless pets...procure...give away...
Unwilling to see your own gifts
Thinking that it's boastful to think positively about yourself
Full of ego to acknowledge your own assets
So why was I surprised when the day came that you quit me?
I had let my guard down
Taken a risk
Was I too hard?
Too much work?
You were
I loved you anyway
Were you bored with me?
I was with you sometimes
I hoped it would get better
Did you find someone better?
Who knows?
I don't
No explanation given
A cowards way out
Not brave
Weak
People who quit before they try are afraid of living
Aren't you ravenous for more?
This proclivity for giving up on people, pets, jobs, school, etc...creates more drama and loss than just committing & opening up
It had been there all along
This shutting down
It always nagged at me
This inability to grow
This stagnant stifled existence
Sitting still
No ambition
Not being able to see anything through to fruition
Who told you you can't want more
So much pain
So much self doubt
Not being able to feel
Cold to the feelings of others
Being "content" doing nothing special
Who hurt you
You give up before you even start
Grad School because....well, you know
Pets...endless pets...procure...give away...
Unwilling to see your own gifts
Thinking that it's boastful to think positively about yourself
Full of ego to acknowledge your own assets
So why was I surprised when the day came that you quit me?
I had let my guard down
Taken a risk
Was I too hard?
Too much work?
You were
I loved you anyway
Were you bored with me?
I was with you sometimes
I hoped it would get better
Did you find someone better?
Who knows?
I don't
No explanation given
A cowards way out
Not brave
Weak
People who quit before they try are afraid of living
Aren't you ravenous for more?
This proclivity for giving up on people, pets, jobs, school, etc...creates more drama and loss than just committing & opening up
It had been there all along
This shutting down
It always nagged at me
This inability to grow
This stagnant stifled existence
The Quitter
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Bugger Me
by Kathy Powers
Bugger me you buggerers
When I’m not around.
Tell me all your nasty things
When I can’t be found.
When I’m not around.
Tell me all your nasty things
When I can’t be found.
Sing me songs of ugliness
When my ears are plugged.
Drink to all my loneliness
When I’m being hugged
When my ears are plugged.
Drink to all my loneliness
When I’m being hugged
If you do these things for me
Then I’ll strike you back;
I’ll ignore your pleas for happiness
When your hour’s most black.
Then I’ll strike you back;
I’ll ignore your pleas for happiness
When your hour’s most black.
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