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Mental Health Problems=Poverty, for me.

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A few years ago I gave up work to look after my elderly father after he broke his back. Since then he has died and I have found myself unable to return to work due to ongoing mental health problems of my own.
The passing of my father, my only real family bought on very severe depression and anxiety attacks. I had always suffred from these issues ( and also OCD) but the death of a loved one exascerbated them to a degree that I no longer have any real quality of life.
I keep myself busy with blogging and writing and by teaching myself web design and other programming however I struggle to pay my bills monthly. Not disabled anough to qualify for a full disability support (& that has to be a good thing really) yet not well enough to work I permanently hover on the poverty line and am mostly beneath it.
Having found myself succumbing to pay-day lenders I often have more going out in debts than I have coming in. I am looking for a way out. I just need a little help. It's all beginning to get to me a bit and twice in the last fortnight I've nearly given in to my depression...

I do look for work that I can do from home regularly and do what I can when I can.

I want you to know I have explored all other avenues of help before coming here.
What I'm looking to do here is to raise enough money to completely change my life, to get out of the cycle of small debts caused by PayDay loans and to start to sort out other problems such as my dental situation.
I want to write something compelling & erudite. I have many mental health problems & am struggling to find ongoing employment that I can manage with my If I can sort out my debts and make a start on the other things I need, like a new cooker, my quality of life will greately improve.
In the past few weeks, the Government have bought in new guidelines to prevent people on Welfares from getting into a cycle of debt via payday lenders. The new rules are this: you cannot get a loan unless you have paid all other debts and then you have to wait 31 days between loans. This is fair enough on paper as payday lenders are an awful short term solution to financial woes. The problem with these new rules is that the Govt no longer offer any substitution, they withdrew their crisis loan scheme last year and have not implemented a replacement. I find my self unable to get help as I am already paying a loan off: Here's the problems I am facing at present, I have more going out debt wise than I have coming in:

I need to buy a: a new cooker as mine is broken
b: I desperatley new clothes as I am wearing boots with holes in & the same 2 tees & one pair of jeans everyday. I have no smart clothes for important occiasions or indeed any clothes which might give me confidence.
c: To find a dentist as my teeth have begun to badly decay & I am in a lot of pain. I am missing 1 front top one, 3 bottom back ones on the right & left ( six in total) and one back one on the top left. no local nhs dentist will take me on.
d: To update my pc to include office to work from home.
e: To pay my isp to continue to do the small amount of online work i do find. and finally, just to eat, I have no family & as stated have explored all other avenues before making this, also I do look for writing, data entry, editing, copy editing, and similar  work everday and apply for many jobs. I will also accept job offers within my skill set.
f: Finally, I'd really like to get fit. I was put on some anti-psychotics a few years ago and they made me gain weight. I don't take them anymore but still have some residual flumpyness I'd like rid of. It makes me very self concious to be like this and I hate it. I have had a battery of tests at the doctors as there is no reason for me to be still overweight- being so poor I often go days without food so it seems a bit unfair! I would love to be able to afford to go to the gym 3 times a week, I think it may help me in many ways: it might help with my depression and if it helped me get fit I think it would help my confidence.

If you can help in other ways other than the cash money wads then by all means please message me. Anyway, thank you for your time :)

Update, it was my Birthday 2 weeks ago, even I didn't realise until the nest day. You don;t get Birthdays when you are this poor, I didn't get even one card or phone call but I'm not sure who would've rung...anyway, for those not happy with giving money, I have made a wishlist. Foods and dog foods are especially welcome as are clothes, just get anything XXL & I can take it in. Better too big than too small.
 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/3R3WJIFAFOJG8/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_ws_9D.Ztb15WG5F0

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