Rehome Me. I need help.

So, I'm Andy. I'm 22 and currently live in Leicester, a large city in England. My city is unsafe for me and I am basically trapped in my own home at the moment. My mental health is deteriorating and the only way I can fix it is by moving to. . . . .

So, I'm Andy. I'm 22 and currently live in Leicester, a large city in England. My city is unsafe for me and I am basically trapped in my own home at the moment. My mental health is deteriorating and the only way I can fix it is by moving to a new city.

When I was sixteen years old, I was in college and top of my classes whilst studying my A levels which is quite a significant qualification as it would have enabled me to go to university. Unfortunately, one day I was arrested for a crime I didn't commit and the police seized my laptop containing my coursework which inevitably forced me to fail college due to missing vital deadlines. The case didn't make it to court as I had evidence proving I was elsewhere and not the alleged perpetrator.

Unfortunately, the damage to my education was already done by the time I had gotten my laptop back.

Shortly after my arrest, however, due to a breakdown in parental relationships, I found myself homeless - still at the age of sixteen.

I was lead astray by a crack addict and found myself begging in the street before social services found me and worked with me to find me a hostel space, which I instantly fell in with the wrong crowd further, where I would soon be victim of bullying after a staff member accidentally let slip about my previous and first arrest and my association with a known crack cocaine addict.

Soon, the bullies told the staff I was a bully and I found myself homeless again before being shifted from hostel to hostel to hostel until I was seventeen years old, I found myself trusting the wrong kind of people and I chose to commit various crimes to fit in and to, what I thought, survive.

When I was nineteen, through the help of the church (even though I am an atheist), I turned my life around. They accepted me even though I do not have the same beliefs and helped me.

Unfortunately, leaving the crowd I was in doesn't come without it's violent consequences and now my home city is dangerous. I need to leave. I feel like I am a prisoner in my own home.

This ordeal has caused me to suffer mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, I feel like I am having a heart attack whenever I leave my home. I haven't been able to visit my mother because from my home to hers is far too dangers to travel to. I can't sleep at night for fear someone will find out where I live and every day I live with the stigma of my old lifestyle.

I never hurt anybody. I just followed the wrong crowd and I have paid back for every bad thing I have done. I really need help.

I am trying to raise money to allow me to leave and fix my mental health and push the restart button on my life.

By contributing today, you will help me secure a one bedroomed flat and cover the cost of moving and above all, help me to have the life I so desperately wish I had rather than barely just surviving.

If you'd like to ask me any questions, or can provide me with somewhere to live or can offer any advice or other help, please contact me at [email protected] or through the page if that is an option (it is the first time I've used this website, I'm just going on a wing and a prayer, I guess).