My name is Zachary and I am 35 years old.
- I believe this to be the source of all of my mental illnesses. When I was four years old I was in a tragic car accident where I flew out of the car and landed on my head. I never got a proper brain scan to figure out if there was actual brain damage but the event itself was very traumatic. I woke up in the hospital screaming in terror with no idea how I got there, I ripped my catheter out which caused me intense pain. Therapists have said that it overloaded my fear response in the hippocampus part of my brain. I still need to get therapy and get a brain scan done to figure out if that is the root problem to all of my issues. But I have a lot of symptoms that point to frontal lobe damage in my brain. Due to all of this, I didn't grow up to be a normal child, this happened in the middle of my developmental stage and I wasn't able to bond or form proper relationships with people. I also deal with several identity issues. Now at this time in my life I had stopped taking care of myself properly. Due to all of this and medication complications, I have found myself living in my car, homeless. It has been a very difficult time. I lost my job, apartment, and my entire family including my son because I couldn’t keep up with my mental health and there is just nothing they could do anymore because I wasn't helping myself, but I very much am working to change that. it’s been devastating not having my son in my life. I have lost all of my support systems, not because they dislike me but because they can no longer do anything to help, which I have accepted, take acknowledgment of, and I understand. The biggest blessing in life would be for me to get into my own apartment again, continue to attend group therapy, Church especially. I just want my family back and to become the man that God and my family expect of me. This goal I do not expect to be completed in full, and that's ok. I'm just trying to get as close as I can, and I am also working full-time, I just started a job this past Monday. Anything you can do is an absolute blessing and will go towards getting me off of the street and into a comfortable living situation. If I can get an apartment and maybe even some Nice furniture, and a look into more advanced therapy and a brain scan, I think it would be a great way to start fresh in my life. I don't want to believe that I have wasted my entire life, I want hope that there is still time. Thank you and bless you all.
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Zachary Pitts
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Olathe, KS