Help Bash with their car and health (Read info!)

Hello there, My name is Bash Quispe and I need your help.

At the beginning of last winter, I entered a mental crisis that ended up with me being responsible for several burdening factors in my life. One of them being medication that is currently being paid out of pocket and has been necessary to my quality of mind and mental recovery. Another is being responsible for rent of a one bedroom apartment that I am currently struggling to pay for and cannot break the lease due to an absurd charge which I cannot, in any shape or form, can afford. Due to all of this, I cannot afford food since it goes to gas and medication, so I have been relying on food programs to feed me in the meantime. However, I had a functioning car that has been essential to going to and from work, go to food pantries, and began working DoorDash on top of a very physical job in order to afford rent. I spent the last of my savings and credit on this car that has been essential to overcoming my struggle. I believe that through hard work and diligence I would be able to pay for rent and medication until my lease ended so then I can look for an affordable place later this year to make my life easier and focus on repaying back all that I owe to my family and friends who have helped me go through this rough period of my life. I believed that I simply had to go through a bout of endurance and face the consequences of my failure of being responsible of my mental health. However, yesterday morning my car has been unusable due to an unforeseen accident, which now puts my very livelihood at risk.

I wouldn’t be asking for help if there were any other alternatives. I have unfortunately met a perfect storm in which I cannot work my job if I do not have medication, and I cannot afford my rent if I cannot go to work, and I cannot get my food as well as my medication if I do not have a car. I have been scrapping by quietly out of shame of my current living situation. However, there is no pride I can muster to keep me going in this much suffering, especially when one is in the brink of homelessness, unemployment, and deteriorating mental health. I have lost so much this year but I worked quietly and diligently along with the support of my closest friends and family to bring myself to a level in which I can start my life again to where I was before I lost my sanity. Yet, with this new crisis, I am on the brink of once again losing all of it: my home, my routine, my health, and my mind. I do not know what to do, and to be honest, I am scared. I am ashamed for asking for help, but I am scared of going hungry, I am scared of being lost in the streets, not knowing where I am going, and I am scared of falling through the cracks of my mental undoing again. I ache and I ask for a simple donation.

Anything helps.

Thank you for reading.

-Bash Quispe