Iām sorry, thatās an utterly awful situation. I know there is little I can do to help, and I wish there was a button I could press to fix it for you.
Iām so sorry
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melbaboutown@aussie.zone āØ1ā© āØmonthā© ago
Manā¦ I am so deeply in crisis. Iāve massively avoided talking about just how severe things have been living here but with the crime and untreated mental illness/substance issues ramping up again itās really affected my mental health. I have really severe ptsd developed over the years from repetitive harassment and stalking, attempted or semi-success break-inās while Iāve been home and credible physical threats. (The pocket I live in is a hotspot for untreated mental illness and substance abuse issues with a lot of resulting crime, and Iām considered an easy target due to my size, disability, isolation and gender. The cops do little to nothing because itās so entrenched.) It is still constantly being triggered by further threatening incidents with no end in sight. I just donāt feel safe living here and yet Iāve been trying to escape for a very long time with no luck. People are trying to help me but itās getting nowhere soon. Iām afraid that my physical health is going to give out, my mental health will end things for me, or my luck will run out and Iāll no longer be able to avoid the threatened physical attacks. I may be forced to move from public housing into dedicated disability accommodation or mental health housing but I donāt know how long that could take or if there would be any suitable places. Iām using all my coping strategies it theyāre just not enough against this. I have a psychologist but she seems to have hit the limits of what she can do for me and is now giving really minimising and toxically positive responses that are incredibly stressful and unhelpful. There is a secondary support worker I have who is much the same and Iām getting so stressed out by them that Iām just canceling appointments and withdrawing. The psych ward is not an option. I explored that option years ago in response to intense suicidal ideation/planning due to this and found it is both ineffective and genuinely dangerous for an AFAB even somewhere with a āwomenās wardā. I canāt afford the private rental market, canāt go to any family, and canāt cope with share housing so thereās nothing anyone here can do for me. I desperately donāt want to die but without safe stable housing I really donāt see a future for myself.
Iām sorry, thatās an utterly awful situation. I know there is little I can do to help, and I wish there was a button I could press to fix it for you.
Iām so sorry
Thanks. Iām so sorry to dump that on you all. I perhaps shouldāve stepped away from Lemmy like Baku did.
If itās any consolation Iām a survivor and fighting as hard as I can for a better future.
I would rather you donāt step away, I consider you a DT friend to me.
Cheers. Iāll try to keep the trauma dumping to a minimum and hope for some kind of solution
Rather than projecting far into the future which you canāt predict and canāt fully control focus for now on making it through hour by hour.
Ask yourself, can I make it through the next hour? If yes, keep going.
If your current residence doesnāt feel safe, while you canāt flee from it completely, stepping away from it might be helpful. For example go to the library, hell even if a shopping mall. You donāt need to buy anything.
That would be nice but I feel genuinely unsafe to go out (for good reason) so not really the best suggestion.
I also get routinely sexually harassed in public and the closest shopping centre is at the epicentre of the roughest part of town. Iām not interested in āovercomingā my aversion to going out in public while living here, soz.
I will absolutely be working on expanding my comfort zone if I make it to somewhere better.
Thanks for the rest of it. Iām doing the best I can to make it through bit by bit.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone āØ1ā© āØmonthā© ago
I donāt know if this would be any help but have you seen Housing Hub?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone āØ1ā© āØmonthā© ago
Oh I have, thanks! Thereās a bit of complexity involved so thereāll have to be a lot of looking through the options