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Living in my car

Oldperson
Community Member

The owner of the house that I was renting for the last 4years, passed away they gave me 30 days to move out, I have done everything possible, I have put my name everywhere, nothing is available for a 69year old man, the only thing is to place me with mentally unhealthy and like, people, I am now living in my car, like so many others, the alternatives are worst. So sad, depressed, covered in mosquito bites, can't take much more

 

I get a ton of advice from everyone but no real help from anyone

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Croix
Community Champion
Community Champion

Dear Oldperson~

Welcome here to the Forum. There have been other people here who have been in similar situations and it is a real nightmare, to be kicked out of you home with nowhere else to go.

 

Don't worry, I'm not going to try to give you practical advice, I'm sure you have contacted all the  Departments, charitable organizations, family if you have one and all the rest, in fact you may probably know of more places to try than the ordinary person anyway.

 

I guess there are two things at the moment that really make you feel powerless, the shock of being taken from your home, and not seeing any light at the end of the tunnel. Add to that you are living in painful and limiting circumstances so being depressed and even thinking that taking your life might be a relief is totally understandable. For differing circumstances I've felt that way too.

 

Like you I've no idea how long things will stay the way they are now and you can't realy change that. So what is left is to change you, make you able to deal wiht it somewhat better.

 

I found I needed a couple of tihngs, the first was medical attention to see if I was suffering from  anxiety and depression leading to suicidal thoughts, and yes I was. So I started gettng treatment for that . It was not an instant fix, but did help a bit.

 

The other tihng was distraction. I found that if I could take my mind away from real life for a bit each day then it eased the burden a bit. I do not know what you have enjoyed in the past, I enjoyed reading and would save it until towards the end of each day to give me something to look forward to

 

Is there anything you can do like that ? It does not have to be reading of course, anything you have enjoyed or let you lose yourself in will do fine.

 

Getting out of the car and talking to others may help, talk helped me. Sometimes there is a group like the Mens' Shed you can go to. Nothing to do wiht housing of course, just having something to do and chat.

 

Nothing earth-shattering in my suggestions, however maybe they might help a bit -what do you think? Don't be shy if you are not impressed, just say so:)

 

Take care

 

Croix