Alex’s Recovery Support Fund

thank you all for the love and support! See update below  ❤️

Hello. My name is Alex Corona. My pronouns are she/her. I am a transgender community advocate, and HIV prevention ambassador, and a sex workers rights activist, among other things.

I am also a lifelong sufferer of eating disorders and mood and anxiety disorders. Depression and binge eating and bullemia have plagued my entire life and I’ve carried these demons with me for as long as I can remember. 

That said, I have finally hit a breaking point. My weight is the highest it’s ever been and I am so scared. I carry the darkest constant depression in my head and heart and I’m gonna die soon if I don’t get help. I am finally trying to dedicate time and energy into my self by admitting myself into a full-time residential treatment facility starting on Tuesday 11/24.

This is my chance to get the mental health help I need to finally combat decades of self-hatred and reckless self-sabotaging behavior due to depression and body image issues. Quarantine has exacerbated these issues beyond my capacity to handle them and I have not been in control of my mind or body for quite some time. It’s really scary to not feel at home in your own brain or body and I am finally admitting that I can’t fix this by myself. 

I put off getting help for so long because I believed that I don’t deserve to be helped. That I’m too far gone to start living a healthy life now and that this is all my fault. 

I recommend therapy to people all the time but have never thought it would work for me. Who knows, it might not work, but I at least owe it to myself to try. I deserve to live. I owe it to myself, my friends, my family and my community to try to stay alive instead of falling down the suicidal path I’ve been on my whole adult life. 

Thankfully my insurance will (supposedly) cover the cost of the treatment through the end of the year, but I still need help to reach my deductible and I will also need help to pay my bills while I am not working during treatment. This program is intensive with hopes that I will eventually proceed to partial hospitalization and then outpatient treatment. After that I hope to live a long life of helping my communities and making folks laugh. 

Please consider helping me or just send me good vibes and caring energy. May Britney Spears herself guide my path. ❤️✨