Hello, my name is Daphne Garrido - my pen name is Ophelia Everfall.

I'm schizophrenic and have been for about a year and four months now. I've not been living well. I've been doing my best. My life has fallen apart.

It's been too scary to be honest about, and I've been navigating it all alone apart from professional help I was too afraid to share most pertinent details with.

I've lost everything but I still stand at a precipice where I might regain enough footing to regain earned time with my daughter. My schizophrenia isn't crippling beyond the ability to care for her. I'm a beyond competent guardian when without anxiety which leads to panic attack and have me rolling into mania unchecked.

That's been what I've bought thinking I'm not schizophrenic. I thought I was psychic and could feel people. That's not it.

Still, I write very well and believe myself to be some kind of bizarrely schizophrenic, creative, writing savant who just needs a place to live for a while to get themself set up and on disability to carry a gap towards establishing myself as an author.

I will be okay but need financial help to bridge that distance. Thank you for your consideration.