Support Annie D's Fight for Survival

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Support Annie D's Fight for Survival
Hello there. My name is Annie D and I am 69 living with a very painful disease from using SSRI's for 20 years. I am also a survivor of clergy abuse and developed CPTSD when I was 12. However, the memory did not surface until 2019 when I moved back to my hometown after a 35 year absence. It was quite a shock to my system yet it all made sense. Now, I understood why I struggled so much in life physically and mentally with relationships and career. Drinking had become an issue so I decided to get sober at 35. However, I was still struggling with CPTSD. I saw a psychiatrist who put me on SSRI's which I would take for the next 20 years. Sadly, there were high dosage back then. I was able to go back to school and get a teaching degree, yet, I would feel suicidal several times a year and have to check into a local psych ward. I had no idea why that was happening and the doctors couldn't tell me either. I was able to go back to college and attain a teaching degree through all of that. I was proud of myself and had begun teaching at University in 2001. I loved every minute of teaching Art and was able to teach at USF and SUNO until 2004, when I became so sick I could no longer walk up Lone Mountain to class. I was devastated. I had become disabled with gut disease and osteoporosis. I could no longer work and would not receive a pension. I grieved for months. It was then I decided to wean off all the SSRI's the doctors had me on. This was difficult and I lost appetite from the leaky gut. Then in 2018, I had a near death experience. I went to the hospital and there was nothing they could do but offer more medication. I was literally starving to death. I had a hole in my gut. I went home and called a dear friend in tears. She suggested I get on the GAPS protocol to help seal the gut asap, which I did. I have been on it every since to stay alive. I am struggling to stay alive as the food I need to thrive costs more than I can afford and I cannot eat from food closets as I am on a highly restricted diet. Please, please help me to stay alive as I am healing from the irreversible damage of SSRI's.

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Help Ghada's family in Gaza rebuild their lives

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Help Ghada's family in Gaza rebuild their lives
Hello, I am Ghada Al Sersawi, a member of a family with a paralyzed father and an autistic brother, among three families who had to live in a single tent in Gaza after their homes were destroyed. A girl from a simple family, we had a very simple house to hide in, despite its smallness and narrowness, it was our safe haven, our life was very difficult as my father was sick (stroke) and my younger brother had special needs (autism), and despite our harsh circumstances, I was always excelling in my studies and always in first place, I had very big dreams but I always had the thought of what next..? Is it possible for me to achieve my dream one day? My circumstances only made me more determined, I distanced myself from everyone, I was alone with myself and my studies until I got a GPA of 95.1 in high school, thank God, my GPA allowed me to enter university with a full scholarship but on the condition that I maintain a certain GPA, during my studies I needed a laptop as my specialization required it (secretary and medical records), I worked as a teacher for a number of students for a very small fee in order to collect its price, I was very tired as I was working all day and studying at the same time, and I asked one of my relatives for a loan to complete its price. And as soon as the fateful day of October 7 came, on the first day and in the blink of an eye we do not know how the situation turned upside down, our safe haven was bombed with all its dreams and all its hardship and fatigue, even my computer, which I did not complete its installments, was gone and did not return, everything became ashes, even my dream of completing my studies and developing myself. I am now very lost and I need someone to support me, how can I be my own crutch and the crutch of my family, I need to be their next support, I hope that I can meet their needs, provide treatment for my father and provide support for my brother and be the back of my mother whose health has been affected by fatigue.. I need to complete my dream and compensate my family and myself for everything we have lost, we are now starting from scratch to build a decent life only and not a luxurious one and we need someone to support us even a little.

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