Please help rehabilitation efforts
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Hi my name Justin.
I have been struggling with mental health for a few years ever since I fell into drug use after losing my home. I was able to kick the addiction two years ago thanks to a therapist I had for a while but during the pandemic the practice was closed abruptly.
Since then it has been a struggle to find a new therapist due to no one taking my insurance or no appointments being available if they do.
I have been tirelessly trying to keep myself together while being turned away again and again. Keep calling hotline after hotline, trying app after app, and while some of it helps a bit…it felt like I hadn’t scratched the surface of getting help.
On October 30th, I tried to commit suicide by taking a bread knife to my forearm. I was so exhausted of having all the energy to give and not being able to. I was tired of trying so hard to find help to express my emotions and feeling like I’m being blocked or guarded from healing which frustrates me further because I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.
I wish I could go back every second and stop that moment or even try to find a way to explain why it happened.
Thankfully I survived….many endless thank you’s and blessings to my dearest girlfriend Marisa, the EMS, the cops, and the doctors that did everything right when every second mattered.
As I lay in the hospital crying, I pleaded with god and my ancestors to give me a chance to mend this world wherever I can if I survived. It is hard for me to ask for help but I’m not going to get in my own way anymore.
I’m here fundraising to get help with basic living expenses as I’m temporarily off work due to the injury to my arm. As well as some therapy costs while I rehab my arm and hand. I severed an artery, some tendons, and nerves in my arm.
I pray to heal quickly and develop an effective approach for anyone in pain to find a way to express themselves. I have a couple ideas that I came up with during my struggle to find help the last few years but I need to learn so much to be able to help anyone.
Some funds will be used to take classes online with the goal of getting certified in behavioral therapy.
Please share this with your friends and family, and also please remember to check on your friends and loved ones often ❤️
Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for any help, in any form ❤️❤️❤️
I have been struggling with mental health for a few years ever since I fell into drug use after losing my home. I was able to kick the addiction two years ago thanks to a therapist I had for a while but during the pandemic the practice was closed abruptly.
Since then it has been a struggle to find a new therapist due to no one taking my insurance or no appointments being available if they do.
I have been tirelessly trying to keep myself together while being turned away again and again. Keep calling hotline after hotline, trying app after app, and while some of it helps a bit…it felt like I hadn’t scratched the surface of getting help.
On October 30th, I tried to commit suicide by taking a bread knife to my forearm. I was so exhausted of having all the energy to give and not being able to. I was tired of trying so hard to find help to express my emotions and feeling like I’m being blocked or guarded from healing which frustrates me further because I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.
I wish I could go back every second and stop that moment or even try to find a way to explain why it happened.
Thankfully I survived….many endless thank you’s and blessings to my dearest girlfriend Marisa, the EMS, the cops, and the doctors that did everything right when every second mattered.
As I lay in the hospital crying, I pleaded with god and my ancestors to give me a chance to mend this world wherever I can if I survived. It is hard for me to ask for help but I’m not going to get in my own way anymore.
I’m here fundraising to get help with basic living expenses as I’m temporarily off work due to the injury to my arm. As well as some therapy costs while I rehab my arm and hand. I severed an artery, some tendons, and nerves in my arm.
I pray to heal quickly and develop an effective approach for anyone in pain to find a way to express themselves. I have a couple ideas that I came up with during my struggle to find help the last few years but I need to learn so much to be able to help anyone.
Some funds will be used to take classes online with the goal of getting certified in behavioral therapy.
Please share this with your friends and family, and also please remember to check on your friends and loved ones often ❤️
Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for any help, in any form ❤️❤️❤️
Organizer
Justin Telfer
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY