Hello! I apologise that this is far less important than anything else on this website, but, I’m desperate, and I’m willing to try anything. Please feel free to ignore this if you don’t want to help out…
I’m a small, digital artist, with mental health issues, not major ones, but depression, anxiety, PTSD and possible autism. I am trying to get help for these issues, but I am struggling at the minute because of COVID… I also count myself as an artist because I do create commissions, but thanks to my anxiety and a low watcher-base, I’m basically unemployed. I also can’t seem to get a proper job at the minute, and don’t have a lot of skills (having poured basically all of my education work into Art because it’s what I believed I could do for a career before I became fraught with mental health.)
I’m trying to save up for a very large plushie, as plushies comfort me, and help me keep calm during panic attacks, flashbacks and depressive slumps. This plushie is very large, and would be perfect for me, but it is £1000, thanks to its shipping costs. I just can’t stop thinking about it, and I badly want to try and get it. The plushie is of a character I really care about, that I have become attached to throughout my depression.
My family can’t afford that, as we are a low income family. I am trying to save up for it myself through my art too, but it’s not going so well; not many people want to buy my art at the prices I’ve shown and my anxiety is suffering because of it. I’ve even begged my friends to help me, and while sympathetic, they were unable to help save towards it, although they did try. To add insult to injury, the sale is on a time constraint, meaning that if I cannot save up enough in time, as it’s looking like what is going to happen, I won’t get another chance.
I know it’s really bad for me to ask, and I’m really sorry to bother anyone, especially on a site where people are asking for a lot more, for far more justified reasons, but could anyone help me pay the £1000…? I currently only have £35 towards it, but I’d be so thankful and I do need it if I want to be able to buy the plushie before it’s gone for good. (Also sorry about my paypal link, it was designed for my art accounts.)
paypal.me/neebowo