About a year ago on I was physically assaulted by a community member who used to be my friend+ lived in my building during a mental health crisis. I had the police called on me and I was dragged away to the hopsital against my will strapped to a gurney. I then had to stay in the hospital til 2am and convince the psychiatrist that I can go home because I did not want to go to inpatient where I’d had negative experiences in the past. What people don’t know is that when you are 51/50'd you lose all your rights. I had to operate knowing that anything could happen to me and I can’t take any legal action against those who harmed me because my rights were stripped away from me because I was deemed “psychologically unfit”. Someone was legally allowed to assault me because I was having a mental health crisis.

This has left deep psychological and physical trauma and I have been forced to racked up credit card debt trying to address via somatic practices including acupuncture, EMDR + body work. I lost my job in November of last year and haven’t been able to afford/access the care I need to heal due to losing good health insurance. I have Kaiser now and we all know how Kaiser is with mental health.

There are a lot of details I am omitting for the sake of not traumatizing those who are reading this /not creating drama by revealing those involved, but what happened to me was a truly violent act. I had physical bruises on my neck and my legs for at least a week after and the knowledge that people I once considered my friends have shown no remorse for how they impacted me is truly heartbreaking. All I’ve asked for is an apology and it hasn’t been given.

This is truly so embarrassing to have to reveal what happened to me during a very low point in time and I’m asking for help because I’ve run out of options to access the care I need.

My goal is $6,500 to pay off some of the credit card debt and also finish up some of the treatment I’ve been receiving.

venmo: @brammerl

gofundme: link in bio.