Help Kyle Pineda Access Life-Changing Treatment

My name is Kyle Pineda, I am 22 years of age.

I have been struggling with mental health for pretty much my whole life. I did not have a normal childhood due to a learning disability, Auditory processing disorder (APD), Tourette syndrome, and Autism.

For the past five years or so, I've been under treatment of a system that emphasizes drugs, counseling, and at times hospitalization, but without a cure in sight. With every year that passes, my condition seems to worsen.

I am reaching out to all who read my story and are willing to help me financially. My parents and I have sought the assistance of a different type of treatment, but not covered by my insurance. My parents knew of the Drake Institute and sought help for me when I was four years old, but they could not afford the $10K cost.

The success rate for this treatment is over 80% and even the slightest improvement in my condition would give me a better opportunity in life.

What I am looking forward to is hopefully being weaned off my medication, gaining confidence, mental clarity, focus, and improved social skills with my peers. Also, someday able to find my first job and earn my very first paycheck.

This condition has crippled me emotionally and has caused me anxiety pretty much almost daily. Negative thoughts of myself, doubting, fear, and discouragement led to triggering my tics has always left me frustrated and exhausted. The side effects of my medication that cause me to gain weight contribute to my emotional stress.

Is this going to be life? Why am I like this? I felt hopeless.

But my parents always pull me out of my helpless state of mind through words of prayer and gentle words of love, especially my dad. My dad is always my go-to person when I am in dire need of help. He always encouraged me to reach out to him whenever I felt despair or in one of my episodes. I will feel guilty calling him at work but he insisted that I am his son, I'm his priority. Dad always drilled in my mind that I am surrounded by people that love me.

I think it was a miracle or maybe a ray of hope for me when Dad remembered about Drake Institute. I checked out YouTube and their website. Dad called and we spoke to the doctor on the phone. I was kind of hopeful. But again, it is expensive.

Dad is a very recent amputee and is still on disability leave. I don't want to add another financial burden to my parents, because my dad hasn't got his prosthetic leg yet. So the only way for me to get help is through GoFundMe.

I need this treatment.

Please help.