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Hi, My Name, Is Menachem K.
This is very humiliating to have to write, I’m in an extremely difficult situation right now and I need help or I’m going to be homeless.
I’ll start with my family moving from NY to South Florida when I was 10 and my parents divorcing when I was 17, it was very long and toxic and it had a huge effect on my mental health.
I will skip over to August 2020 which was when I attempted the 3rd of my 3 suicide attempts. After it happened, I realized I needed a change.
I contacted my dad who I hadn’t spoken to in 4 years, he left my brothers and I after my parent's divorce. He brought me to the Bronx to live with him and my stepmother.
While I knew it wouldn’t be the best situation to go to, it was the change I needed for at least a short time, it turned into a bad situation.
I worked on my mental health with the help of my therapist and got myself into Focus Personal Training Institute last summer where I did daily zoom classes from June until December.
I graduated and then was hired right away at Blink Fitness. After I started to work things got even worse and very toxic at home. I would receive constant verbal abuse from my stepmother while my dad basically guilted me into just taking it and doing nothing.
All of what was happening at home started affecting me at work and it was making me suffer not just mentally but financially too.
I tried to have a serious adult conversation about how I was feeling with my dad and stepmom, and it turned ugly fast. I will never be a victim of any abuse EVER AGAIN!
I worked too hard on myself in the past year to get to a healthy mentally good place, get a certification and a job
I packed up all my stuff without having a plan a place to go and left, because I knew if I stayed in that toxic environment another minute I was slipping. My mother had given me the name of a Rabbi nearby who I reached out to, and he found me a place to stay for a few days.
As of this Friday I will be homeless, my mom and uncle helped me as much as they could. I need to be independent and focus on working getting my final certification and not worry about a place to live. A co-worker has a friend who can get me a cheap place to live, So I am asking for your help. Anything you can contribute would help me. These funds are going solely for my rent!
Thank You,
Menachem
This is very humiliating to have to write, I’m in an extremely difficult situation right now and I need help or I’m going to be homeless.
I’ll start with my family moving from NY to South Florida when I was 10 and my parents divorcing when I was 17, it was very long and toxic and it had a huge effect on my mental health.
I will skip over to August 2020 which was when I attempted the 3rd of my 3 suicide attempts. After it happened, I realized I needed a change.
I contacted my dad who I hadn’t spoken to in 4 years, he left my brothers and I after my parent's divorce. He brought me to the Bronx to live with him and my stepmother.
While I knew it wouldn’t be the best situation to go to, it was the change I needed for at least a short time, it turned into a bad situation.
I worked on my mental health with the help of my therapist and got myself into Focus Personal Training Institute last summer where I did daily zoom classes from June until December.
I graduated and then was hired right away at Blink Fitness. After I started to work things got even worse and very toxic at home. I would receive constant verbal abuse from my stepmother while my dad basically guilted me into just taking it and doing nothing.
All of what was happening at home started affecting me at work and it was making me suffer not just mentally but financially too.
I tried to have a serious adult conversation about how I was feeling with my dad and stepmom, and it turned ugly fast. I will never be a victim of any abuse EVER AGAIN!
I worked too hard on myself in the past year to get to a healthy mentally good place, get a certification and a job
I packed up all my stuff without having a plan a place to go and left, because I knew if I stayed in that toxic environment another minute I was slipping. My mother had given me the name of a Rabbi nearby who I reached out to, and he found me a place to stay for a few days.
As of this Friday I will be homeless, my mom and uncle helped me as much as they could. I need to be independent and focus on working getting my final certification and not worry about a place to live. A co-worker has a friend who can get me a cheap place to live, So I am asking for your help. Anything you can contribute would help me. These funds are going solely for my rent!
Thank You,
Menachem
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Menachem Kaplan
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New York, NY