Donations have been very slow. I'm attaching her most recent update from GFM. Please if you are able to donate, it will help a lot. Whether it is 5, 10, or 20 dollars, it still counts and makes a big difference! Fundraiser by Gregory Lewin : Donate to Save Hanan Al-Salout's Family in Gaza
If you can donate or share, please do. She just had a baby while still taking care of her 4 year old son. Whether it's 5, 10 or 20 dollars, it helps!!
Fundraiser by Gregory Lewin : Donate to Save Hanan Al-Salout's Family in Gaza
F23. I realized I wasted a lot of my time and energy trying to live and survive and abandoned my interests for years due to low self esteem and poor mental health. I always been interested in the arts (music, fashion, writing- especially writing etc) and I’m wondering if it’s too late for me to make that pivot and dive back in, teach myself things etc. I never did anything for myself in my life and I think this might make me happy, but I’m questioning if it’s too late for me to take those things more seriously.
How do you tell people that you need help without coming off as attention seeking and desperate.
I have been experiencing major discomfort the last couple of days and I don’t know how it started. I recently came off my period, and the days that followed, I started to feel this throbbing painful sensation in my vagina. (Not exterior pain) I thought it was a UTI and used some over the counter medication to help with that, thinking it would go away, but it’s gotten worse. I feel it in my lower back, and my thighs and legs too. I recently shaved to see if there is any bumps I’m overlooking and I came across this one. It’s cluster-like to me, it could just be an ingrown hair but I’m a bit paranoid. I already booked an appointment for my OBGYN. Can it be herpes?
I missed one night of taking my meds and I feel like I’m in a manic episode. Can’t sit still, can’t stop talking, etc. my usage of alcohol and cigarettes increases around this time. I hope I don’t do anything impulsive. I usually do.
I made a sideblog on tumblr to help spread and boost gofundmes and 2 weeks into it, I’m a bit overwhelmed. I don’t think those who spam are automatically scammers, I think it’s very harmful and just dumb to think like that, but it has gotten very intense for me and I feel like I can’t say no. I think last week I’ve donated 100 dollars or close to that amount when I was already low on funds. I closed my dms because I felt overwhelmed with the influx of people asking me to donate when my main goal was trying to boost, but then I was messaged about ignoring them if I didn’t answer in a certain time (I’m very busy)This one man on tumblr that I’ve came across with said that he has put his whole trust me in completely to help him and his wife get married and find a tent and I think that’s so much weight on me that I didn’t clearly say I was capable of doing. It just saddens me because I feel like nobody truly sees how desperate Palestinians are getting. They’re clinging onto anything, they’re spamming, they’re sending the same messages everyday, and it’s heart breaking. It angers me. This is what we have allowed. We allowed it to get this bad. And as much as I want to help, I feel bad for saying I was able to but I didn’t expect for all of this to spiral. Now I feel awful, because I already had one family/person I haven’t been able to focus on and my anxiety has been through the roof, knowing my donations, boycotting, etc is not enough when there are 4-5 people asking you for help.
Before you say anything, I am looking to move out. I’ve been saving up, but I’m becoming increasingly uncomfortable and angry by my mom’s lack of boundaries. She goes through my things and organizes myself, and apart of me feels like a control tactic because I always have to ask HER why MY stuff is becuase she would literally take stuff out my work bag “organize” it etc.She threw out my liquor bottle (and I’m more angry at the fact that she literally through MY MONEY out) by doing that. She always wants to be in my space and things and it’s so weird to me. I’m not the baby of the family. I’m the third adult in my house. I’m not a teenager, I pay my own bills, but she doesn’t let me do shit for myself. I don’t have enough money saved, I feee like I need the next 3 pay periods to actually feel secure in leaving but she’s driving me crazy and I don’t appreciate it all. It’s invasive and it’s starting to make me resent her.
I know I can’t link the GFM here but I’m getting desperate and concerned. I am in contact with a girl from Palestine, and we talk weekly. Donations have slowed down, and I don’t know if I’m the only person she is contact with but I don’t know how to raise awareness in an effective way. Everytime when I make a tik tok, it gets taken down, suppressed and I can’t even put a link in my bio and I know nobody is copy and pasting a link in the caption. I have a link in my Instagram bio too, I donate as much as I can, but it feels like people are really just ignoring them. And I know she’s not the only one. She has expressed to me how forgotten she feels and how the world has abandoned Palestinians. Is there people I should contact so the GFM can get more traction. I don’t have a big following on any of my social medias. What should I do?
Hello! I’ve been having a hard time raising funds for Hanan and her family and we are frequently in contact. I don’t have many followers on any of my social media accounts, and when I do post, I’m not allowed to put any links, it gets taken down and it’s suppressed. Ive been donating a lot to this family since 2024, and I think I’m one of the few people they are in contact with. If you would like to donate, it would mean a lot. greatly appreciated!
The vetting link is through tumblr. They are # 152 on this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YGgkXoyam7tnbXb-vqWsHFs3Puyf\_xYeXY2dPrZQY1M/htmlview
Now that I’m thinking about it, my psychotic episode of 2024 where I was unemployed and my grandma passed away was bad. Spent way too much time online. Current events is what I would consume every day. I stopped eating, sleeping etc. thought I had this knowledge nobody else did and it made me feel so anxious at the same time. I remember feeling very detached and I started spiraling and fell down rabbit holes that would consume my whole day. I realized how weird I was acting and I’m looking back like “why the fuck did I think like that, I would never think like that now.” Does anybody feel guilty or bad for what they believed in, thought of or did during psychosis? My last one was last summer, and coming into this summer medicated and happier!
I have been working at the same place for almost a year and they are now saying that they are considering me to be an actual employee rather than an apprentice. Anything that I don’t know, hasn’t been taught to me in full. And I would like to say I’m a pretty good worker. I have great work ethic and I pay attention to detail. If you ask me to do something, I will get it done, but sometimes I feel like it’s such a slap to my face. I work myself until I’m tired and exhausted. Until I triple check my work. I don’t allow myself to slack, and when I do, just know something is wrong. But I feel stuck. I still feel like the bag lady, i can do certain things but not everything (which is very fucking weird to me because I want to learn) but I’m just exhausted right now. Nothing I ever do seems to be enough and i want to be enough. I want to get better. And that’s what it feels like. It feels like I’m good but not better.