I don't want to live anymore

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I need practical help, not someone to listen to my woes.

Citizens Advice?

Adviceline: 03444 111 444

Text relay: 03444 111 445

That's extremely general, and not like I haven't been to them before, or again.

Please, to everyone: No helpline numbers please. I've tried them all. I need practical help.

Ask your GP for a psychiatric referral. That's as practical as it gets. A psychiatrist will find the most effective medication with the most rapid results. I have been in this hopeless place and even took it a step further, life seemed just one sharp, all encompassing, swamp of pain.
it did pass. I experienced many joyful things when I got better, I never believed it was possible. Psychiatric medication sometimes takes a while to attain full effect. I was given another med with immediate effect simultaneously that provided the ability to perform the minimum basics of existence at least. I just went to my GP and told her I didn't want to live. She took it from there. The hardest thing is accepting help in these states but it needs to be done.

When I was no longer emotionally dysfunctional and paralyzed I had the ability to start dealing with the practicalities of saving my home and borrowing money for legal advice. One step at a time.

Last edited by Teach51 on 22 Apr 2020, 6:43 am, edited 1 time in total.

Apologies

Just been looking online for rent guarantor schemes: on the commercial side I couldn’t find anything that Amity hasn’t already linked to above, however I have checked out Shelter’s website: they have a page which has links to both councils which have schemes in place (not all do) and Crisis’ database of charities which include this service here.
They do seem to have quite strict requirements however from the outline Shelter give.

How can we help in the *meantime Smudge? (*until you find someone in 1) a position to and 2) would know and 3) trust you well enough to help by committing to be a guarantor)

Thank you. I've had a look at it. I can see loans for rent deposits, and aside from the title, I can't see any guarantor schemes. Have I missed it?

I think you have to click through to either the Locate your Councils help page.
Or the search the Crisis database.
Both require specific details to proceed further: and they're focused on folks who are homeless or under threat of being so in the next eight weeks.

No doubt these schemes would be specific to only the areas they deal with too. I'll have a look anyway.

EDIT: Yep, area specific only. All of them. Most of them are local councils (On the Crisis database).

Yeah, I take it your area has no such scheme in place then?

I’m currently stumped: only other thing I can think of is to contact your local MP and see if they or their staff can put you in touch with suitable help via their network.

Parliament Website: find your MP.

Edit: if you go down that route googling their name can be beneficial, many of them have businesses as well where you can annoy them until they move. Sister-in-law didn’t get movement on sanitation issues at her abode until I found her MPs law firm and sent her to bug him there

Smudge, is it still the problem with your mum having access to your savings etc.? Can you change things so they don’t have access and get your own council home? I’m sure that wouldn’t be a quick process, but could you see about a change?

I don't see the point in living when nobody cares about me and nobody loves me, and I have no voice. Everything in my life I cared about is destroyed.

I'm nothing.

I will leave one day, there's no point hanging around in a world with people who don't care.

People care about you here. That’s for sure.

We do care about you Smudge. I know exactly how you feel, I often feel the same way.

Probably not helping but something that always cheers me up....

It is the truth Smudge

hard to get through those days with those kinda feelings and this isolation thing,does not allow for easy access to anyone else in person to help you debrief your thoughts . if you have any hobbies or things that you might be "possibly " able to do that would provide any distraction . During times like these , those can be critical helpers on getting through it.
My thoughts are with you .