An urgent campaign is underway to raise $100,000 to cover critical therapy at a trauma center for a member of our community who is suffering from deep trauma and suicidal ideation.
Funds are desperately needed to cover the 60 day trauma center, proper follow-up therapies, living expenses for the family while their breadwinner can’t work (rent, food, clothing, Yom Tov expenses etc…), and crucial therapy for the spouse and children while their husband/father is healing.
Update 9/22/20:
Since this campaign was started two weeks ago there has Baruch Hashem been an outpouring of support that enabled him to start his healing at the trauma center right before Rosh Hashana! Funds are still desperately needed for the remainder of the trauma center costs and therapies.)
An open letter to the Chabad community by a wife and mother of three:
I am reaching out to you with a heavy heart. It is so difficult for me to ask for help, but this is our only hope.
My husband and I have been married for over a decade BH and have three sweet children. Soon after we got married, I found out about horrific incidents of abuse (rape, molestation & emotional abuse, etc…) that my husband experienced. Unfortunately, he never received the proper trauma treatment for any of them. He was able to more or less function as a father and husband. His method of coping was to disassociate from his feelings to numb the searing pain.
But then, approximately two years ago, my husband’s immense pain could no longer be kept beneath the surface. The repressed feelings exploded into a major depressive episode, anxiety disorder, and suicidal ideation. He could not work, sleep, or function. He had to be hospitalized for his own safety.
It soon became crystal clear that the so-called explosion was a direct result of complex PTSD that he went through as a young innocent child.
With the help of weekly therapy sessions and medication, he slowly but surely was able to return to a semblance of a routine and once again began connecting with his emotions.
Recently it became very clear that although the weekly therapy was very helpful it was not enough. We reached out to a Rov who specializes in mental health. The Rov referred us to a therapist whose expertise is trauma. After carefully assessing my husband it was determined that he requires a MUCH HIGHER LEVEL OF CARE. For his specific case, it was crucial that he gets to a trauma center to heal ASAP even before Yomim Tovim!
Here is where YOU come into the picture. I need your help to SAVE my husband!
I turn to you, rachmanim bnei rachmanim, in the days when we need all the Zchuyos we can get… help us reach our goal of $100,000, thereby saving a life, a family and all our future generations! In this Zchus, may you and your loved ones have a Gmar Chasima Tova & a SWEET NEW YEAR and may you never know of such pain!!!
A pained – yet hopeful wife
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Unfortunately this is more common than we know and should be brought to light so people can be saved before it’s too late
I’m so sorry you and your family are going through this. May Hashem give you a year filled with healing, blessing, happiness and joy. May your husband recover immediately and may you have many happy years together.
Many long happy years together! Only revealed good
I dont know this person. I do know pain though. The terrifying truth that if you dont get help, you are on your way to death. Mental illness kills.
I spent 9 months looking for treatment on my own, and I finally got a scholarship. I can vouch for the exhaustion just the money concerns bring., on top of the horrific pain. Please, I am begging you to help this man.