Help Kas seek treatment & recover from debt and abuse.

Hi, my name is Kas Wright - I also go by Kaslo. I'm 26 years old, I am a digital artist and computer modeler. I'm genderfluid, currently transitioning. I've spent the last 6 years running from a very bad family situation while trying to put myself back together. I'm finally in a safe and stable place, but the journey annihilated my finances. With encouragement from friends and partners I've finally accepted that I need to ask for help rather than stumbling around trying to do and fix everything myself.

I suffer from a variety of different mental health problems, PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression among them - this has made working a job incredibly difficult, and every attempt I've made has resulted in imploding mentally and then backsliding - leaving me worse off than I was before getting the job. Over the course of this journey I've been hospitalized 3 times for suicidal ideation - all of these incidents were work related. I've almost gone through with that finality more times than I can remember.

The jobs themselves were no help - accommodation requiring surmounting barriers that were thrown up and that I often didn't have the energy or spoons to deal with. I turned to DoorDashing and blood plasma at times to cover my expenses, which had their own set of hurdles and also led to a similar fizzling out.

Unhealthy coping led to spending way too much money on "feel good" food, stressed my living situation, and has caused social and financial issues.

In the past 6 years I've had to move roughly 7 times due to various factors - at first escaping from my abuser, then situational, then work. Many of these moves were stressful.

As a result I am currently swamped by medical debt, my car is starting to show signs of wear and several parts are starting to fail, I owe a significant amount to one of my partners and a smaller amount to my mom for the help they've provided, and I have PayPal debt which gradually grew into a small monster while I tried to cope with my mental state, poor and inexperienced decision making, and other factors.

Currently I am seeing a psychologist, the medication is helping me significantly - I've also started transitioning again which is helping as well. Moving forward I want to start going to therapy and try to get some of my past trauma sorted out. I'm working on improving my eating and exercise habits as well. In other words, doing my best to heal.

My partners are supporting me by keeping a roof over my head and providing financial support when and where they can - but it's financially straining for them. Additionally with the debt hanging over my head like a cloud, it causes significant stress for me.

I want to take some of the weight off their and my shoulders by taking care of my debt, ensuring I have reliable transportation to my doctors appointments, and being able to cover my medication and healthcare expenses more thoroughly.

Breaking things down a little:

Medical Debt (That I know of) - $1905

Personal Debt (Partner and Mom) - $10066

PayPal Debt - $2878

Car Repairs (Approximate) - $1800

To cover medical costs, meds, groceries, gas, and emergencies - $3000

The debt itself comes to $16,649

Total after additional funding to help with necessities: $19649 -> $20,000 for a rounded out number.

Any extra funding will be put towards aforementioned necessities.

It's a tall ask, and I've been overthinking and stressing over the situation for months about whether or not to put this out there and ask for help - but I feel like its the right decision in the long run as it will help me get the treatment I need and help relieve a lot of stress in the lives of me and my partners.

Any little bit helps, be it sharing, boosting, talking, or donating.