Tabitha, like so many others, has always battled with depression, and over the last two years, her dep… Sarah Davidson needs your support for Keeping Tabitha
Depression is a gradually insidious poison in the brain that corrodes one’s sense of self until the tattered remains are no longer recognizable.
Some of you know I have been battling severe depression and anxiety for the last two years, mainly because it’s had a huge impact on my writing and caused a major hiatus in our story, Nothing Comes from Nothing. It has progressively worsened during that time to the point of frequent suicidal ideation. I just returned home Thursday from spending a week as an inpatient at a Mental Health Hospital due to these thoughts having reached a tipping point.
If someone you know or love seems to be struggling, take the time to check on them. Ask how you can help them and then follow through. They may need someone to talk to or distract them with an outing or help with shopping or chores. Everyone has unique needs and requires different types of support. Just let them know you care and stand by them; it means more than you know.
My wife works full-time, and I work part-time; I had to quit my full-time job last year because the stress was exacerbating my anxiety and depression in the worst ways. I have been fighting Social Security to get on disability since I quit my full-time job because I simply can’t function like this. I do pet sitting, as well, to try to pick up a little extra and because animals keep me calm (like our four cats aren’t enough). Even with that, we are completely strapped financially between the cost of my insurance, a mortgage, and all the utilities and bills that go with adulting–including the fact that my mother- and brother-in-law live with us and only help with groceries.
Due to this, I have been unable to afford any treatment (such as much-needed therapy) beyond prescription meds which stopped working, as they tend to do, and left me a suicidal mess. I’m a bit better after the hospital switched up my meds, but I need therapy if I’m to actually improve and not end up where I was a couple of weeks ago.
If you are able to provide any financial support to help cover the costs of my hospital stay and the first few therapy sessions, it would be enormously appreciated. And if that’s not something you’re able or comfortable doing, words of encouragement are greatly welcomed, as well.
TLDR: My depression has gone to hell in a handbasket, I became suicidal, spent a week in a mental health hospital, and am too broke to pay the medical bills and receive the treatment I need.
