Hi, my name is Dan, I’m 30 years old and honestly could use help with just about everything. Prior to leaving my last job in December of 2020, I actually – for the first time in my entire life – decided to try and address my mental health issues. First by admitting to myself that I had issues, then by seeking medical help.

Despite being prescribed anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds, though, I continued to spiral. Between working a soul-crushing job – albeit an easy one – and trying to emotionally work through my grandma’s death and yet another failed attempt to connect with someone, it felt like I couldn’t stop the bleeding. So in a last-ditch effort to try and save myself and avoid acting on my suicidal ideation, I quit.

There was no relief. In the months that followed, my condition worsened so I was referred to a psychiatrist and therapist. I continued to pile up bills I couldn’t afford because unemployment wasn’t enough. I cycled through meds every month or two as nothing seemed to work. I began having panic attacks and violent outbursts whenever I sat down to apply for jobs. I stopped taking care of myself. And I watched my bank account slowly dwindle, knowing full well that when it hit zero, I was done.

That happened on December 20th, 2021. I was so broke I couldn’t even buy all my meds so I tried to pick what I thought were the most useful ones. But I couldn’t even cover that. So I had to rummage through my pockets for spare change. After that, I went home, went to sleep for the first time in over 30 hours, then tried to overdose when I woke up. Three weeks later, I was admitted to the psychiatric ward for the first time.

Last year wasn’t much better. I had several more failed suicide attempts. There was another hospitalization. There was an overnight observation because apparently they had nowhere to send me. I received two denials for disability because my issues are all mental health related, though, that’s pending a doctor’s visit next week for my back. I had to have my scope of care expanded a couple times. And I had to rely on my family and what government assistance I could get just to get by. Still, I never stopped looking for a way out.

Then, in October, a flat tire turned into a hole in the frame of my car. Which led to us discovering it not only needed the frame to be welded but also had several other issues. For me, that was almost the last straw. I’d been kicking things around in my head, wondering if it was worth it. Wondering if it wouldn’t be better just to end it and free my family of that financial burden. But I kept going back and looking at dogs up for adoption at the local ASPCA.

At the end of October, my parents helped me bring my new bestfriend home. And while he’s helped considerably – largely due to us always being together – finances continue to remain a major stressor.

My parents make sure the dog has food and toys. They give me a place to live. They buy toiletries and necessities for the house. They cover all the bills. They cover my car payments. Basically everything they can do, they’ve done. And then some. All so I can stay focused on my mental health and working through things.

As for me, food stamps allows me to eat. I continue to take my meds. I attend therapy weekly. I see my psychiatrist monthly. I’m about to start with a peer support program. And I managed to find a disability lawyer that will take my case.

Still, I would like to be able to lighten the financial burden for my family a little. We don’t know how much my car repairs are going to cost yet. But I do know there’s only $450 and some change left on my car payment. I also know I can’t afford my insurance next month or to put gas in the tank once it’s out of the shop because the last $20 I got from Christmas are going towards dog food (the rest went towards insurance).

I’m not asking for much. Just a bit to help over the course of the next few months leading up to my disability appeal. Anything helps, and thanks for taking the time to read my story.

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Hi, guys im 19 I am the third child of 7 kids from my mother and the last of 5 from my father. My mother married my stepfather when I was 3 she took her first son and I left my other brother with our biological father. She then had 4 more children that I was responsible for my brother left to live in my aunt’s house because the pressure was too much on him I don’t blame him for leaving I just wish he had taken me with him. I had a very awful childhood I was doing laundry at the age of 9  for me and my 4 siblings and when I say laundry I mean wites colored blacks and I’m doing it with my hands too because we didn’t have a washing machine. I grew up feeling like like I don’t fit in because my stepfather had treated his children differently from he treated me and my biological father didn’t even call me, I got bullied but my stepfather’s side of the family even from my biological little sisters that I take care of while my mother worked.

I remember how we didn’t have any power so we had to get light legally so it would be off during the day and we only use it at night we had a very small house the bathroom was outside we had two rooms one for my parents and one for me and my siblings that only had one bed in it and I place where we put the table top stove and the dishes. my mother used to work and my stepfather used to go out and drink, I remember how I had to take my siblings over to the old lady that lived near us so they could get something to eat and sleep while we wait for our mother I had to stay in the dark because the old lady didn’t like me or my mother.

So I was discriminated against because of my complexion because my stepfathers side of the family had lighter skin and curlier hair I used to hate myself because of them.  And my mom wasn’t much help for me either because my step father was abusive towards her and it wasn’t discreet I had to sit and watch him hit her, I used to feel angry towards my mom because she never left him. But she said ist because she had no were else to go so idk know anymore.

all of that made me make up my mind that I will go to school and get a good education so I can take myself out of that hell, but I guess god had other plans for me cause the older I got the sicker I became and when I told my mom she said I was lying. I had irregular periods and I would feel the worst cramps even when I’m not on my period, it made me so sick I feel nauseous and dizzy no matter how I complained about it I was told that I was lying or that its because I didn’t want to something. it really affected my learning but I still tried my best even when covered came in and I had to learn from home I didn’t have a gadget and I wasn’t even one my aunt called me to stay with her until she gave birth and because she got c section and it oped back I basically had to have the baby for the first 4 months of her life it was really stress full trying to teach my self while watching a new born luckily my Foods teacher was serious about us learning she made it her point of duty to make us do face to face for her class and I am still happy that she was my teacher I pass her class.

a month after my 18th birthday I got my first job at a restaurant and my bosses where picking on me and I mean really bad I was given double shifts I had to fill in when some one didn’t feel like working, some times I work from 6 in the morning to 10 in the night and I know it doesn’t sound bade but my pay didn’t add up, and I had to be letting a lot of stuff damaging my already damaged body that I still don’t know about. anyways I left there after I was fed up with them shorting me and I got a different job in a call center, and I fainted during work and when I went to the doctor they told me was just polycystic ovary syndrome which means i have cysts on my ovary, I was given i prescription but i couldn’t fil it because i was laid off i got a different job after so long and after working there for a week i start to bleed a lot went to the doctor turned out i was pregnant and i lost the baby and that’s not all i was also told that my cycst has gotten so big it may cause ovarien cancer so i left my job because it was too much hassling on my body i was really depressed still depressed actually.

My mother asked me to leave because my 16 year old sister got a baby and they need the space for her so i was living with these people but I’m getting the sense that they want me to leave so I found a place the bathroom is still building all i need to get some electricity and a few furnitures to move there its, it snot much but its enough seeing that i lived in way worse, i feel i lil ashamed to beg but i don’t know what to do rn. If i have a stable roof over my head il feel much better. the picture i uploaded is a picture of where i am rn that place is were i  sleep and ill have to leave it soon i wanted show more photos but it wont make me.

Hi my name is Dorothy and I am a 57 year old woman who has spent the last 4 years pulling her life together after 10 years of poverty, drugs and homelessness.

I haven’t always been homeless or on drugs and without any money. As a matter of fact I graduated from high school with honors and was my class valedictorian. I went to college for a while and then I went to a nanny school and became a professional nanny.

In my early 40s I moved from California to Arizona with my mother and I took care of her for 7 years. Then very unexpectedly and out of nowhere my sister who I was extremely close to passed away from lung cancer. Then shortly after that my mother passed away.

I didn’t know it at the time but since then have been diagnosed bipolar with severe chronic depression. With their passing I fell apart, I got into drugs and eventually everything got away from me and I found myself alone and homeless on the streets of Phoenix Arizona.

It took me a very long time to overcome the loss of my sister and my mother and of course the drugs didn’t help even though I thought they were at the time. Somehow by the grace of God I found myself after many years of homelessness and chaos, in Flagstaff Arizona.

I went to the shelter in Flagstaff called Hope Cottage and for the first time in a very long time that’s exactly what I started to have, Hope. The people there were wonderful and they helped me and loved me and healed my broken soul.

Now 4 years later I am clean and sober, I have a place of my own and am finally almost back on my feet. This is why I am asking for a little help. Because of my drug use and depression and bad choice’s I ended up crashing my car over 7 years ago. I had no insurance at the time so now I owe the courts 1200.00 in fees in order to get my driver’s license back. I am also in need of a cheap little used car so I can get to work.

I have had a few jobs here and there in the last 4 years but getting around on the bus has been difficult because of my weight and age.

I have taken Peer Support Training and want to pursue training and a career in mental health. My teachers think I have what it takes to be a very good therapist. The place that I trained at had wanted to hire me after my training to work for their company but the one thing that stopped me from getting the job was that I didn’t have a car.

To some people three or four thousand dollars may not sound like a lot of money but for me it would be life-altering it would change everything!! For me it would be the final step to getting back on my feet.

My ultimate goal is to pay it forward. I want to be a peer support specialist and go back to college and get the training I need to be a therapist. I know what it’s like to be on the street, to be alone and desperate. I want to be able to help people like I was helped.

I want to make the world a better place if I can in some small way. It’s taking me a long time to pull my life back together and I’ve worked hard but this last hurdle seems to be the most daunting of them all. If you can help me even with a little bit of money towards the goal of paying off my fines and getting a car I would be forever grateful and your kindness would go to someone who wants to make the world better, who has gratitude for all that she has and just wants to pay it forward.

Let me start off by saying I have a hard time admitting when I need help, but it’s come to a point where I can’t see a way out of the hole I’m in. I’m married with two kids, my oldest is 7 and my youngest is 6 months. She wasn’t planned but I’m head over heels for her. Our financial situation is we can’t afford basic necessities. Don’t get me wrong we somehow find a way to get things paid but it come with sacrifices, like putting off groceries and just getting bead an peanut butter. Luckily our land lord is understanding of our situation but we are three months behind on rent and I’m not sure how long he’s going to wait before he just considers us a lost cause. We’ve tried to get government help on multiple occasions but we get denied every time, and I don’t feel comfortable lying to them to get what my family needs. My wife and I dropped our dental and health insurance on ourselves some time ago and to be blunt it shows.

We are drowning and need help.
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My girls and I need HOPE.

So, every which way I turn I hit nothing but dead end roads and brick walls. My youngest has been saying the past few weeks how she wants her own bedroom. A HOME with a real kitchen. It kills me inside, it hurts.. I am a self taught, strong independent woman. After having my twins Genesis and Caroline who are now 4yrs old, I have had trouble getting back into steady work. Reliable income. I also have a 10ur old daughter Ellanore as well. She is so smart and I am so proud of her. She has never had it easy. As much as I try to shield her away from bad and hurt. She was abused when she was 3 by a close family member. Shortly after her father died at 4yrs old. By time she was 6 I was now pregnant with twins, not able to work anymore, depending on a man who was the best actor I have ever met. Ever since I allowed him into our lives all he has done is being me down and anything to hurt me physically and mentally. I have lost 3 homes bc of him. He put me in debt with Xfinity. He has broken into home and robbed me andy girls of our rent money and every electronic thing he could grab. He has stolen my car, had me arrested on false accusations 3 separate times. I finally was breaking free from him. Getting my girls and I away from him and his abuse. After 2 yrs of living in a hotel, FINALLY MOVING INTO PUR OWN HOME! A TOWNHOUSE in Pennsylvania. Our move in date was 1-20-22. 12-21-21 I allowed the twins to go with him till after the new year, that way I could pack and start moving our lives 5 hrs away. As agreed on 1-02-22, I came back to pick the twins up. He has other things in mind. As soon as I arrived he started yelling and screaming and then the hitting followed right behind. I grabbed my girls as fast as I could not knowing he was on the phone with the police. Needless to say, I was soon arrested and sent to jail under false accusations of second degree burglary sitting on 12,000 cash bail. THERE WENT OUR HOME!! I SAT IN JAIL TILL MARCH 2,2022 BECAUSE OF HIM. BECAUSE WE LOST THE HOME WE HAD WAITED AO LONG FOR! We were so heartbroken and still are. Since then we can barley afford the hotels on a weekly basis. Somehow I have managed this far. Along with paying storage fees. I am constantly looking for work and the next job I can make more money. The next gig I can do. Nothing that is getting us further in life. For the past few years I have had this goal/dream to start up my own Mobile Detailing Business. With this, I would have another opportunity to get away and be free. I could afford a lawyer to defend us on court against him when I can take him. (Which I have been documenting everything since I was let free)

So I have slowly started collecting items I would need to successfully do the jobs I would be hired on for. Only a few more things I need. I need a trailer. I would use my Honda Odyssey to pull the trailer till I  able to purchase a work truck to use for the business. I them would need to purchase a water tank. I already have a gas powered pressure washer and an electric pressure washer too. I have all the towels and rags possibly needed and scrub brushes. I need all the products to clean and wax and shine. The most important thing of all would to aquire my license first before doing any job. This way, with starting up this mobil detailing business, I would have a reliable income for my girls and be able to provide so much more. They deserve it. They deserve to have a place to call home. They deserve to have somewhere they know is their home and not worry Bout leaving to some place else. My girls would be there learning from me and watching. Learning how to be strong independent woman. This wouldn’t be the end. Starting this company would only be the beginning of much more goals and dreams I have.

I have never asked for help. This was quiet a pill to swallow. Always want to do things on my own because I know I am quiet capable. Lately, I just don’t understand. We need a fresh start somewhere new. I have no family, no friends. So we wouldn’t be leaving anything behind but bad memories. Even as a child myself growing up in new Castle. Life was hard. I have raised my self since 5. Mom would leave home while going to work all day. My father used to abuse me an also tried to kill me. Would have, if he wasn’t put away for murdering his apparent boyfriend. After that my mother’s boyfriends were not any better. They would abuse me andy sister as well. My mother was always worried about dying alone and would blame us for them leaving her. Didn’t matter the abuse we took from them. Or the uncles that touches us, having to fend for ourselves at 5. At 16 I was kicked out the house and been on my own since then. I haven’t been able to create a stable home. I have failed so far. One thing I have not failed and WILL NOT is being the best mother I can be. Everything I went thru as a child prepared me to be the mother I am today. Over protective. I always miss them and tell them how much I love them. Most importantly, men is not something I bring into their lives. I refuse to allow that. I refuse to take the chance of bringing them around my girls in trusting them with the safety of my girls unlike my mother…

My whole point… I know I am rambling on, but my point is, I just need the chance. I need the help to start something up to change our lives. We have no one. So here I am reaching out. I pray, God I pray someone reaches out. Help us out in anyway. We would be so grateful.

Please…

A. Magner

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I’m a 32 yr old Marine Veteren who recently quit my job of 10 years. Which was basically my only civilian job. I was the single Marine program president that organized all kinds of volunteer work and events for military oversees. I have a Presidential Volunteer Service Award and have helped out so many people all throughout my life and even today as I still give people who need a ride transportation but didn’t know if I’d even have the gas to make it home. I would probably be a millionaire if they all decided to pay me back today. I was renting out my mothers house for the past 10 yrs but she passed away a few years ago leaving me and my siblings to split it. I don’t have the money to buy my own home yet and  my brother and sister have been nice about it but want me out so we can sell the house already before the market drops even more. Since Covid happened the factory I worked at was constantly laying us off every other week just about or two days on then 3 off. Then they did away with my entire shift. Management didn’t care anymore and just where I was working wasn’t worth it anymore so quit in October after I found a new job as a contractor. But a few days later the employer just stopped answering. It went from him calling me constantly to me finally being serious about working for him and quitting my job to absolutely nothing not even a curtesy email. I do a little work at Kirklands on days they need help and every Thursday for the past couple years because they were short handed during COvid and unloading 700+ boxes of  furniture type stuff all by hand from a truck all alone wasn’t something I could let someone do and I always felt like they needed me to help unload it since then so I do. Sorry I’ve gotten a little off track. I’m going to move in with my sister so we can sell the house and I’ll have a down payment for one of my own soon after. I’m having a hard time getting a job that pays more then half of what I was making. Since I’ll be moving soon nobody really wants to hire me for just a month. I’ve sold just about everything I own  to pay the bills so far but have gotten far behind on a lot. I’ve lost my entire storage unit full of all my stuff I put in there to store until I got a new home. Worried my car will be taken away any day now. I really would like to utilize this time I’m still off to finish painting the house and fixing it up to sell. My sister has bought some and comes over when she can but she’s a manager, wife and mother that has so much other things she has to do always. I know she has to hate it when she comes over and sees I have nothing else done and she’s gonna really hate when my utilities are shut off. I’m sure she would do all she could to help but she’s struggling to pay her own bills. If I just had a couple thousand dollars I could get mine caught up and the repairs done at the house to sell it and something in my fridge to eat or drink. I will pay whoever back with interest. I’ve even broke down and asked a couple of the people I’ve helped out in the past by giving a few thousands to but they’re still struggling themselves. I’m so depressed lately and feel like I have nowhere to turn and making things harder just being here. I’m a very hard worker and regret quitting now, I just couldn’t handle being expected to do so much and unappreciated anymore. I did apply for I guess food stamps and whatever assistance the government can give me yesterday, it’s still “in progress”  Im letting my cat and dog  down too. They’re stuck eating just dry food and almost out of it. I usually give them both some wet food everyday and my cat won’t stop telling me about it. I’m grateful for anything. I’ve never been one to ask others for anything really except my mom when I really needed something and even then I didn’t have to ask but she’s no longer here, yet still will be helping me soon years after passing away. I’m not sure about this site but it was worth a shot. Thanks to whoever cares enough to read these. I greatly appreciate anything at all.

I am staring this campaign to help my son. He does not know I am doing this.
My son works hard and has always had a job but bad luck and bad choices have been big problems. I hate to see my son go through these hard times because he is a good person who does not smoke, drink or use bad language.

Credit card debt is basically destroying the budget especially when he is supporting off and on a female friend and her children. The plan was that the female was to get a job to help pay the bills but that did not materialize during that particular time period.

My wife and I love these children like our own grandchildren and have bought food and clothing among other things for them. One actually lived with us for at least a year. The mother and children now live with relatives. We are good friends with family and that will not change.

Now back to my son. He got into credit card trouble trying to keep everyone happy and paying these monthly charges is becoming difficult. My wife and I have helped him all we can. I figure his credit card debt is about $15000.00 but could be more. I would like to get this paid off and also give him enough to cover three month’s expenses. This would help greatly.

I would also like to get my son a better car since he was involved in a vehicle accident couple of weeks ago. He was not hurt except for some minor back pain. The accident was not his fault. He has always had very used and not so dependable vehicles except for the used vehicle that my wife and I gave him which is the one that was wrecked. Insurance company has not settled yet. I lent him our spare vehicle to use until then.

My son is trying to sell his house and move closer to the area he was raised in. The house needs some repairs including a heating issue in order to command a good selling price. In this economic atmosphere, one income has proven very deficient in paying for a house just by itself. My son was told this but he was determined to make it work.

My son is basically living day by day financially with no real assets to mention since he had only been in his house for one and a half years. The used vehicle is wrecked which may be totaled out comparing value to rebuild cost. He does not have a pension saving plan. If I can get him enough help with the credit cards and vehicle, then maybe I can help him with better choices.

I would like the money to come to me, his father, so I can pay the income tax and then consult with the proper authorities to get the money to him with minimal tax implication. I am not hard to find since I live in a small town and have worked with Government almost twenty years before retiring.

To be upfront, I figure my son is $125,000.00 in debt counting mortgage and credit cards. His vehicle is wrecked and operating with one I lent him. The house probably needs $10,000.00 in repairs and all this is an estimate because again it is his property and he doesn’t know I am doing this.

Thank you for your time in reading this. Any amount will help. My PayPal link below:

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I had been addict3d to heavy drugs off and on for 27 years I have worked and not worked it has been a cycle that I never really noticed until my seven month stay in a great rehab facility in Eureka Springs Arkansas. It is crazy to look back now at the mess I have created for myself in the aftermath, but I am trying to keep going and continue to be a productive member of society. This is not easy for me, because I don’t ask for help but at this time I have no other options so here’s my situation I finished rehab and instead of going home I stayed in that area got a job and did what I had to do to not go back home with people places and things that are bad for me I immediately got a job started paying my child support with my first check and it felt amazing to be working and adulting. For the first time in forever I thought everything is going to be OK so wasn’t real happy with living conditions but I made it work. My new job paid a two thousand dollar sign on bonus, thousand in ninety days, another thousand in six months I was so ready for that and when it got to my ninety days, with my weeks pay plus the grand i would have enough to get an apartment but out of fourteen hundred and eighty seven dollars I got four hundred child support took the rest plus the two hundred and fifteen they take weekly which stopped me from getting an apartment couldn’t keep staying where I was at couldn’t afford to live anywhere in that area so had to pack up and come back home so now home new job doesn’t pay as well as last job but it’s a job call child support let them know and she told me I have two active warrants for child support I said but I have been paying since June what do I have to do to make them go away she said they want ten thousand dollars but they will let you off with five thousand my whole world has just come crashing down the depression anxiety the struggle is now real I told her mam I don’t have that kind of money you guys take more than I can even spare already so I start applying for loans online went checked my credit report and guess what child support has attacked my credit to where I cant even get a very high interest loan so no matter what I do nothing works I have noone to borrow the money from I have to be very careful everything I do so I don’t get caught by the police and get stuck in jail for six months my kids are so proud of my accomplishments what is this showing them I’m a good dad to my kids anytime they called me and needed help with clothes food anything I was also ways there to help but right now I need someone to help me I’m not asking for someone to pay off  y child support which is sixty five thousand dollars but helo me to get these warrants cleared so I can breathe and not have to go to jail it is not fair that even when u am doing right and paying my child support they won’t let that go so I can continue to pay it they rather me not be paying and lock me up it makes no sense whatsoever for this to be happening so please if anyone can help me I will appreciate it and my kids will appreciate it too thank you