Dean and Pets Recover Financially

Hello, thank you for clicking on this! My name is Dean, and it has been an extremely long couple of years that has me crashed financially.

It began, as for a lot of people, with covid. I was a data analyst for six years at an amazing company, and for the first time in a long time, I was happy and excited about my future. I have Persistent Depressive Disorder, and a few years before covid, I went on short-term disability to confront it and finally get help. After a long, long battle that I nearly lost, I was finally in recovery. But then covid hit, and I was one of thousands who were cut in layoffs, and eventually, that amazing company went under.

Meanwhile, my mother had gotten very sick (not with covid), and could no longer take care of herself. My sister had also lost work due to covid, so we decided we would all move in together (me, my mom, my sister and her family). What my mother and I didn't realize was how bad my sister's marriage had gotten and just how deeply my brother-in-law had gotten into drugs and criminal activity. Not even my sister knew the extent of it.

We made it about another year but reality caught up with him, and shortly after, our mother died. Now, my sister is a single mother with two kids, and I am very proud of how hard she is working. I promise if you donate to help me get ahead of my debt, I will continue to help her as I always have. She is determined to pull herself up, and she's succeeding, but it does us both good knowing that I can spot her from time to time--unfortunately, I haven't been able to do that in a while.

I got some part-time work in the beginning while working freelance as well, but since that dramatic ending of my sister's marriage, my mother's death, shortly followed just two months later by my grandmother's death (my other strong maternal figure in my life), my life quickly spiralled. It's been an extremely difficult battle against the return of my depression. I spent another year, moving twice, and just trying to keep my head above water. I'm happy to say that I'm finally settled in what I hope will be my forever home, but bills kept slipping and debt kept building. I'm afraid I'm losing my financial battle now with the additional medical bills, therapy bills, pet bills, housing bills, debt, etc. I realized I was hitting rock bottom when I was diagnosed with an eating disorder now, too, greatly solidified by spending a little over a year choosing bills over food. As a single person with only a dog and a cat, there hasn't been much financial aid for me, although I have applied for several assistant programs.

The fact of the matter is I'm behind the curve of turning this around. Right now, I am working two jobs and burning quickly on both ends. I've set a goal of $3,000 because that will help pull me a month or more ahead so I can finally start to accumulate my income and stop getting behind. However, literally any amount will help me, and I can use all the help I can get it.

If you can donate /anything/, it would mean the world to me.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope you have a great day and something amazing happens to you!