Housing Grant For Bipolar Disorder Disabled Man And Brain Damaged Brother

by John
(Spokane, Washington, USA)

I'm a 42-year-old guy disabled with bipolar disorder and about to get divorced.

I now live with my brain-damaged half-brother (same mom different dad). We need housing grant help.

Although I have no military service, in 1989 I graduated from the world's largest Presidential Bodyguarding School and Law Enforcement Academy.

Due to extreme physical and mental abuse I tried to commit suicide at nine years old and was admitted to Sacred Heart Medical center (Spokane WA).

From there I was sent to Mid-Columbia Center in Tri-Cities, Washington. It was there that I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

I've been to the mental hospital in Medical Lake, WA, as well as to state mental hospitals in Nevada, California and Florida.

I helped raise two children for 12 years and worked 60 hours a week average.

I even earned Pinkerton Securities LAST EVER employee of the month for my section (Reno Nevada) when they sold out to Securitas.

Earning this award showed I was valued and a dedicated hard worker.

Well my bipolar disorder cost me that job. I couldn't handle the move from Reno to Spokane when my mom died. I felt like an orphan.

Due to her death I had to take care of my brain-damaged half-brother (same mom, different dad).

I worked too hard at manual labor jobs because my bipolar disorder caused me to tackle it obsessively and excessively. It cost me five operations in three years.

I ended up with carpal tunnel syndrome from tossing doors during the day for 45-60 hrs a week and coming home and doing hard physical labor building a home around us.

It was a two-bedroom, one-bath home our mom left when she died, and I added a bathroom and bedroom to it.

Most grown men can't take the pain of bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and so they get the operation to fix it. I could NOT do this at the time for financial reasons.

The housing market was crashing and I had to finish building the addition by a deadline. So I did and the bilateral carpal tunnel gained a friend... bilateral cubital tunnel syndrome :(.

Then after I was almost healed as much as can be expected from those four surgeries, I worked so hard that I got a groin hernia.

My bipolar disorder has also caused me problems with every single relationship I've ever had. It's because others DON'T understand and maybe don't want to!

I grew up in foster care, group homes, boys' ranches, etc. They actually shut two of the boys' ranches down for sexual and physical abuse from the staff.

It made the news. Google "J-Bar D boys Ranch in Ione Washington 1983" for the story.

My bipolar disorder has kept me from being able to keep or maintain a long-term job because the other employees don't understand the mood swings etc.

The bipolarism affected my young adult life in a bad way. Living on the streets of LA, NY, Miami, and finding drugs I got hooked on everything from PCP, Meth, Acid, Coke, Alcohol… you name it.

From there it went to sex for drugs and money. With God's help, I decided that wasn't for me. Don't ask me how. It's why I say God.

I decided to learn a trade that would take me from the streets and get me off and away from drugs and make me respectable.

I put myself in Law Enforcement Academy And Presidential Body Guarding School July 10, 1989 in Miami Florida.

I put myself into the Job Corps in 1986 to get away from the abusive group homes and get my GED, which got in June 1986 at 16 years old.

Then after living a life of drugs on the streets, I learned the security trade and got hired at a Security company.

I wanted nighttime posts like Golf courses and parking lots where there wasn't lots of social interaction required. That worked for a while until I moved to Spokane and got sites where I had to interact with people more.

Now that I've had six operations and two cancer scares in the last five years I can no longer work.

I'm looking for a grant to pay off our mom's home so that my disabled brother and I can make it and not end up on the streets.

I'm on Social Security and so is my brother but we're finding it harder and harder to cope. The cost of everything is going up but our SSI and SSD stay the same.

I'm taking care of my disabled brother and if we could just get the mortgage paid off on our home I could finish all the needed work on it and repairs.

To make matters worse, the electrical is bad and I'm scared of electricity. It's a bad phobia of mine.

Well I guess that's it. Thanks very much for listening. God bless and God speed in your journey through this life.