http://northernlakescmh.com/blog/2008/11/27/apparel-by-carol-serylo/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 21 May 2012 19:51:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://northernlakescmh.com/blog/2008/11/27/apparel-by-carol-serylo/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Deb Freed Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:07:48 +0000 http://www.northernlakescmh.org/blog/?p=381#comment-114 Thank you to YOU, Carol, for inspiring people with your beautiful poetry. You are helping to change lives and make our world a better place! Thank you to YOU, Carol, for inspiring people with your beautiful poetry. You are helping to change lives and make our world a better place!

]]> http://northernlakescmh.com/blog/2008/11/27/apparel-by-carol-serylo/comment-page-1/#comment-113 nlcmh Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:03:39 +0000 http://www.northernlakescmh.org/blog/?p=381#comment-113 Thank you to Debra Freed for helping my three poems that were posted on 11-13-08, 11-20-08 and 11-27-08 to be published here on this website. This is a personal testimony that recovery and growth is possible while having a mental illness such as depression. This only allows me to continue to be passionate about doing what I can do to change the horific stigma that still plagues persons with mental illnesses. We do not choose to have these illnesses or do we choose all the outcomes that some of our behaviors that were left behind in piles of rubbish all over some of our lives. Some of my family and friends see my life choices as defects of character that they seem to see as personal choices that have affected their lives in ways of disappointment and failure for their lives but they did not live my life and see how parts of others played into some of the outcomes and trash that lies behind me. So today I move up and beyond yesterdays and look at today and for each and every day that lies ahead of me. Thank you to Debra Freed for helping my three poems that were posted on 11-13-08, 11-20-08 and 11-27-08 to be published here on this website. This is a personal testimony that recovery and growth is possible while having a mental illness such as depression. This only allows me to continue to be passionate about doing what I can do to change the horific stigma that still plagues persons with mental illnesses. We do not choose to have these illnesses or do we choose all the outcomes that some of our behaviors that were left behind in piles of rubbish all over some of our lives. Some of my family and friends see my life choices as defects of character that they seem to see as personal choices that have affected their lives in ways of disappointment and failure for their lives but they did not live my life and see how parts of others played into some of the outcomes and trash that lies behind me. So today I move up and beyond yesterdays and look at today and for each and every day that lies ahead of me.

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