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My name is Grace, also known as snowcoma, and I am in desperate need of help.

I have several severe psychiatric conditions, including but not limited to, Bipolar Type One, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Agoraphobia. Lately, these conditions have worsened to unbearable levels, and both my physician and psychologist have come to the decision that I must receive intensive psychiatric care or I will be forced to go into a mental institution. I have been voluntarily institutionalized once before, and it was hell on earth. It did nothing to improve my mental health, and made me even more reluctant to seek the help I need.

In order to receive help from a psychiatrist, I must raise a truly abhorrent amount of money. Each visit is $150, with the initial visit being higher, and I do not know how many visits I will need. We are looking at the hundreds to thousands range, and I am staggering under the pressure. The state is no help on this matter, and the friends that are taking care of me are stretched so thin financially that there is only so much they can do.

It is my hope that this community [savesnowssanity] will help me raise the money that I need to become stable enough to survive inside my own head. Even enough to pay for one visit is a huge step.

This is why the US needs universal health care.

Look for an offer post from me sometime when I am not supposed to be sleeping. Meanwhile, browse the posts already there.

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Dear staff of polling places and of places-that-were-polling-places yesterday, road maintenance types, and anybody who's put up a campaign sign: take them the fuck down already.