Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,
Thank you for many articles in Southside Pride.  I am prompted to write by “Handy-Dandy . . . Homeless Shelter.”  It took me a month to get out of a Minnesota shelter.  Only to be told I did not have proper mental functioning.  Then to be told I could not seek employment while I was seeking a place to live.  Prior to that? My father spent two years in jail for strangling my mother … 1970s. Why do you see?  Why do you see me arguing against people being on psychotropic “medication”?  No psychotropic ever helps.  The manufacturer’s website will, at least those I looked at, tell you these medications disrupt “cognitive functioning,” i.e., one’s ability to think.  Yes, I know conventional wisdom says otherwise.