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I'm a single black father of a high school sophomore who loves to play viola. We are facing one of the biggest fears I've ever had in my entire life: homelessness. I humbly ask that you hear my story and consider donating to offset my struggle.
It's safe to say the pandemic was brutal for everyone, yet they didn't tell us that it would have such a drastic effect on mental health. During the last two years, my mental health has taken a turn for the worst. Until the pandemic, I was managing my mental health just fine with routine therapy, medication, and doctor's visits. Then the isolation began, and it gradually ramped up my social anxiety disorder to the point where I was agoraphobic. The agoraphobia worsened my ADHD. My ADHD worsened my clinical depression. It was a perfect symphony of neurodivergence that led me to drop down to part-time status to enroll in intensive mental health programs, lasting three to seven hours every weekday. This would go on for months. Once I was done, I was psychologically in an even better place than before the pandemic, but the damage was mostly to my pocket. Thankfully, I've been full-time for the past month.
Fast forward to now, my lease is up on my current apartment. I was to move in with my partner, but she got cold feet and bailed because of my mental health situation. Naturally, this puts me between a rock and a hard place. I blew through all my savings, keeping myself afloat over the pandemic, and now I have no resources to get a new apartment on such short notice quickly. I've been given a few days of couch surfing time between some people I know, but that's it. I'm hoping that I can get out of this situation fast.
Organizer and beneficiary
Pieter Sweval
Organizer
Philadelphia, PA
Philip Roberts
Beneficiary