
Somewhere to live
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Hi I'm Alex, I absolutely hate having to write this but I've tried just about everything else so what the hell.
I have been living on the streets in Worthing for the past 6 year's this Christmas just gone. I have been to the council more times than I can remember all to get the same answer nearly every time. I sort of get 2 choices either move miles away or live on the streets. Sometimes they will give me something that I think would be ok (that's happened twice in the 6 year's) the first place I actually moved into was a hostel called Lyndhurst road which was sort of ok apart from it was full of drinkers and users. The problem was that I drank anyway and I didn't see my problem getting worse than it was when I moved in. Eventually after just about a year I got asked to leave because of my behaviour when I was drunk. I hold my hands up to it I probably was a complete and utter t**t when I had had a couple to many, the problem is I can't remember. So back to the streets I went. I spent about 8 to 9 months sleeping on benches, under bushes and floors of people I barely knew. Just to have a chance to sleep without one eye open. After being attacked when I was sleeping in doorways. In the end I put a tent in a graveyard and lived there for about a year but when all of my stuff got stolen (and by stuff I mean what little I had) and most of my equipment like sleeping bags and things I needed to get by got trashed. I went back to the council. I agreed to move miles away from everyone and everything I knew. So the council gave me a one way ticket to the new town and I went. The house was ok but there was one problem the other people living in it. They were all on hard drugs and not quite mentally stable. I honestly feared for my safety. After about 6 weeks I left and went back to the streets because they actually felt saver than being in that place. ( I heard the police put the door through 2 weeks after I left) So I came back to Worthing and the streets. I've been here ever since, 19 month's now living nowhere. Been to the council and get told the very same thing so it come to the point where I am now nowhere with nothing to call my own and after 2 failed suicide bids and trying not to consider a third. I'm reaching out to you. I love the people of Worthing they have helped me so much I've the past year but they can only do so much. I appreciate them giving me what they can but they can't keep me safe at night. I've been robbed twice in the past year, beaten with a golf club last time all for 85 pounds of my benefit money. It's hard living like this, things that most people take for granted I can't do, like eat, I can't cook anything or store food. Sleep I have to constantly be alert, if I let my guard down then anything could happen. Living like this has changed me already, made me distrustful and scared of people. I hate being like that but after losing everything that I had so many times, even though it's nothing to begin with. It's hard to recover. It would just be great to be able to walk in to a space of my own and be able to shut and lock the door. I know I'm probably dreaming asking this but any help would be greatly appreciated. If you have taken the time to read this many thanks and much love
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Alex Lockhart
Organizer
England