My Birthday Wish for myself&my family
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Hi. As I already have said, my name is Jaimee and I’m currently living in Portland on the west end. I’ve been struggling for the past year with my rent and bills in general. I have a lot of mental health issues that make my life more difficult. I have a hard time staying focused and prioritizing. When I get overwhelmed I end up doing nothing because I feel defeated.
I was homeless from May 2017-December 2017 and I finally found someone willing to give me a chance to have my own place to call home, I don’t have a good record or great credit.. things were great for awhile but my rent was temporarily raised too high and I couldn’t pay it which added $1600 to what I already owed. I’m working with a caseworker st opportunity alliance and she has found me some funding and hopefully everything will come through and I won’t be evicted on the 20th of June.
I grew up with a wonderful mother who provided everything and anything I could possibly need. My father was not s hood person, violent, angry, narcissistic and distant. I witnessed a traumatizing event at the age of 7 that changed my entire life and developed BPD but did not know that for years. I spent more than half my life self medicating, dating angry cruel men just my father and fell into a deep addiction in 2009. I got clean, relapsed, got clean again, relapsed again but that last relapse took everything from me.. I literally lost my home, my job, my friends, my family and my freedom. I’ve fought hard from 2017 to now to change my life but I’m not perfect and things started to go down hill.
I’m working on getting myself back together to get stable so that this doesn’t happen to me again. I have started over and lost everything so many times and I just can’t do it anymore. The past two years I’ve worked so hard to change my ways, to change my thinking so that I wouldn’t keep making the same mistakes, but I have to ask for help.
I am just asking for a safety net so that I can make sure I have my entire Mays rent this weekend so that my funding can start going through, I have to be current first. I am short and am trying to do anything I can to raise money. I have successfully done everything I needed to to get the back rent funding and it’s on its way. I couldn’t have done it without the help of my caseworkers, my family and friends, and most of all the amazing amount of kindness I received from everyone who donated to my cause. Having said that, it truly makes me feel a tremendous amount of guilt to have to ask for your help again, and this time may be just as urgent if not more due to certain circumstances that have changed over the past three weeks.
I was let go from my job with no warning no discussion without any proper prior training on the so called issue at hand and based on assumptions made by three grown man meanwhile dismissing everything I had to say or my coworkers who were actually there and know what was and what wasn’t said etc. I worked at this company for two years and they just dropped me as if I’d been there for a week or something along those lines. I worked my a** off the entire time while I worked there, while I was homeless at the women’s shelter following all my drug court responsibilities and maintaining my recovery as well. I had my fair share of ups and downs there and as no one is, I’m certainly not trying to portray myself as a perfect employee because I wasn’t! But one thing I know I’ve never been is discriminatory towards any individual in my life inside or outside of work so because people like to get offended by everything these days and do things like post these huge rants on social media and go to the news even, my bosses, this multimillionaire company can’t be bothered to stand by their employees as if they can’t afford it. So even with them knowing everything I’ve been going through, the fight for my apartment, the fight to get myself stable and keep from losing everything I’ve worked for these past two years, they just threw me out like yesterday’s trash as if I was nothing! So I’m also now fighting this, working with my housing caseworkers GA and unemployment but I don’t know how long it will take for all that to go through. Meanwhile I’m running out of food, toiletries, money for my medications as I’m also waiting for my mainecare to be accepted and just money in general. I’m currently searching for a part time job and plan to go back to school to try and get a decent career going that will overlook my record from bad choices I’ve made in the past. So I’m appealing to the kindness of strangers to please help me through this difficult time as my family meaning my mother can’t do much more for me as they aren’t swimming in money either. I promise no donation will be in vain as I will not allow myself to get back in such a situation with no back up at all. And I promise to pay it forward as soon as I can. At this time I’m falling behind on all my bills. I’ll be getting assistance in the next month but I could really use help right now. My heats already been cut off, thank goodness it’s summer. My electricity bill was due on June first so I know I have a late fee attached to it at this point. I have been struggling to buy groceries etc. I have two job prospects next week so I think my money issues will be ending soon but it would be extremely helpful to have some help through these next few weeks. And again, as soon as unstable again, I plan to help as many other people as I can within my means. I already appreciate anything anyone is able to do.
If the shoe is ever on the other foot, I will gladly and selflessness help anyone in need because after becoming homeless and literally losing everything, it humbled me and reminded me to always stay grateful. I just need a little bit of help. Please... anything you can spare helps. This is the first place I’ve ever had that was mine, that I got on my own. If I lose my apartment, I lose my home, I lose my life I lose the little self confidence I did gain from the work I put into the past two years. This isn’t just about an apartment, it’s also about maintaining my independence although it doesn’t feel that way because of help I’ve needed but I feel it won’t always be like this. If you want to reach me directly my email is [email redacted] I am open to talking to anyone and meeting the amazing people who even took the time just to read my page and beyond.
Thank you in advance for your kindness.
I was homeless from May 2017-December 2017 and I finally found someone willing to give me a chance to have my own place to call home, I don’t have a good record or great credit.. things were great for awhile but my rent was temporarily raised too high and I couldn’t pay it which added $1600 to what I already owed. I’m working with a caseworker st opportunity alliance and she has found me some funding and hopefully everything will come through and I won’t be evicted on the 20th of June.
I grew up with a wonderful mother who provided everything and anything I could possibly need. My father was not s hood person, violent, angry, narcissistic and distant. I witnessed a traumatizing event at the age of 7 that changed my entire life and developed BPD but did not know that for years. I spent more than half my life self medicating, dating angry cruel men just my father and fell into a deep addiction in 2009. I got clean, relapsed, got clean again, relapsed again but that last relapse took everything from me.. I literally lost my home, my job, my friends, my family and my freedom. I’ve fought hard from 2017 to now to change my life but I’m not perfect and things started to go down hill.
I’m working on getting myself back together to get stable so that this doesn’t happen to me again. I have started over and lost everything so many times and I just can’t do it anymore. The past two years I’ve worked so hard to change my ways, to change my thinking so that I wouldn’t keep making the same mistakes, but I have to ask for help.
I am just asking for a safety net so that I can make sure I have my entire Mays rent this weekend so that my funding can start going through, I have to be current first. I am short and am trying to do anything I can to raise money. I have successfully done everything I needed to to get the back rent funding and it’s on its way. I couldn’t have done it without the help of my caseworkers, my family and friends, and most of all the amazing amount of kindness I received from everyone who donated to my cause. Having said that, it truly makes me feel a tremendous amount of guilt to have to ask for your help again, and this time may be just as urgent if not more due to certain circumstances that have changed over the past three weeks.
I was let go from my job with no warning no discussion without any proper prior training on the so called issue at hand and based on assumptions made by three grown man meanwhile dismissing everything I had to say or my coworkers who were actually there and know what was and what wasn’t said etc. I worked at this company for two years and they just dropped me as if I’d been there for a week or something along those lines. I worked my a** off the entire time while I worked there, while I was homeless at the women’s shelter following all my drug court responsibilities and maintaining my recovery as well. I had my fair share of ups and downs there and as no one is, I’m certainly not trying to portray myself as a perfect employee because I wasn’t! But one thing I know I’ve never been is discriminatory towards any individual in my life inside or outside of work so because people like to get offended by everything these days and do things like post these huge rants on social media and go to the news even, my bosses, this multimillionaire company can’t be bothered to stand by their employees as if they can’t afford it. So even with them knowing everything I’ve been going through, the fight for my apartment, the fight to get myself stable and keep from losing everything I’ve worked for these past two years, they just threw me out like yesterday’s trash as if I was nothing! So I’m also now fighting this, working with my housing caseworkers GA and unemployment but I don’t know how long it will take for all that to go through. Meanwhile I’m running out of food, toiletries, money for my medications as I’m also waiting for my mainecare to be accepted and just money in general. I’m currently searching for a part time job and plan to go back to school to try and get a decent career going that will overlook my record from bad choices I’ve made in the past. So I’m appealing to the kindness of strangers to please help me through this difficult time as my family meaning my mother can’t do much more for me as they aren’t swimming in money either. I promise no donation will be in vain as I will not allow myself to get back in such a situation with no back up at all. And I promise to pay it forward as soon as I can. At this time I’m falling behind on all my bills. I’ll be getting assistance in the next month but I could really use help right now. My heats already been cut off, thank goodness it’s summer. My electricity bill was due on June first so I know I have a late fee attached to it at this point. I have been struggling to buy groceries etc. I have two job prospects next week so I think my money issues will be ending soon but it would be extremely helpful to have some help through these next few weeks. And again, as soon as unstable again, I plan to help as many other people as I can within my means. I already appreciate anything anyone is able to do.
If the shoe is ever on the other foot, I will gladly and selflessness help anyone in need because after becoming homeless and literally losing everything, it humbled me and reminded me to always stay grateful. I just need a little bit of help. Please... anything you can spare helps. This is the first place I’ve ever had that was mine, that I got on my own. If I lose my apartment, I lose my home, I lose my life I lose the little self confidence I did gain from the work I put into the past two years. This isn’t just about an apartment, it’s also about maintaining my independence although it doesn’t feel that way because of help I’ve needed but I feel it won’t always be like this. If you want to reach me directly my email is [email redacted] I am open to talking to anyone and meeting the amazing people who even took the time just to read my page and beyond.
Thank you in advance for your kindness.
Organizer
Jaimee Michelle
Organizer
Portland, ME