I started volunteering with them. It’s really helped. I was the “participant of the week” the first week I was there, and they made me a team leader the in the first month. It helps me stay connected. It helps give me a purpose. It helps keep me alive.

I’m happy to say that, it’s been months of try, but on Monday I’m going to see a therapist. I’m hopeful that I can start to figure it all out, but I know that’ll take a while. My goal basically is go back to the nannying and be more like living in, but mentally I just wanna feel better.

There’s a lot of prejudice against the homeless. People treat us badly every day. Even though I’ve been able to get into the system, so thank God for that, it’s not easy. We can’t be at the shelter during the day. I try to find places to stay then, but you always end up getting kicked out. Nobody really looks at us, or cares. But we’re people. We’re good people. I am a good hearted person. One day, I want to open another LGBTQ shelter. I want to give more people like me something to be connected to. I want to help save lives like the Downtown Street Team helped save mine.