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Jeanene's Rehabilitate & Hope Fund

My name is Jeanene; I am 41, a formerly successful journalist, and have battled unemployment, social isolation, and prejudice following more than ten years of mistreatment and stigmatizing psychiatric diagnoses at the hands of our nation's flawed mental health system. 

Two months ago, overwhelmed by the force of my powerlessness and lack of agency in this world - and weary of my continually fruitless attempts to secure work  -  I jumped off the roof of my apartment building in an attempt to end my life. I survived, although I often feel ambiguous about  the merits of this. I broke bones and joints in every part of my body. I shattered my jaw and incurred fractures throughout my skull. I may never have full use of certain limbs again; the bones throughout my body are now tied together with metal rods and screws. Where once I was average looking, my face is now deformed. I’m missing too many teeth to count, or chew, and have lost significant weight. 

I spent a month in the hospital undergoing a series of painful surgeries, and the past month sitting in a nursing home - a 41-year-old among elderly people, waiting desperately for my bones to heal enough to allow me to return home. My road to full recovery will still take several more months.

Lacking people to talk to at the current nursing facility, and desperately desiring to return home - to be near the love and comfort of my family - I am seeking to raise money for the part-time, in-home care, physical therapy, and occupational therapy I need to move back to my studio apartment. With my only income being SSDI, and my only insurance Medicare, I lack the means to pay for such care - without which, since I live alone, I risk reinjuring myself and setting back my rehabilitation by months. I am also attempting to raise money to pay for much-needed psychotherapy, medical costs and supplies, and to repay my family for the significant financial burden I've already saddled them with. 

Suicide is a growing epidemic in America and throughout the world. It is increasingly being recognized as a social, political and economic problem endemic of the day and age we live in - rather than the provence of the mentally ill. The problems one experiences prior to a traumatic suicide attempt don't magically disappear if you survive. I would be grateful if  you helped me secure a safe road to physicial rehabilitation, as well as obtain the therapy that will help me find the hope, meaning, and purpose to want to live again. Thank you for your time, regardless. 

You can read more about me, misconceptions about  suicide attempts and surviving one, and this rising sociological problem by reading my recent article on the subject, "No room in the inn: Suicide survivors' social, and emotional, wasteland." Or visit my Web magazine's home page here



Me trying to "walk" for the first time, using a modified cane which helps me only bear weight on my heal, on the left side.
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Jeanene Harlick
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San Mateo, CA

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