Trigger Warning: I’m on Disability & always will be now unfortunately. I’ve not only got mental health issues as listed below. But also multiple painful physical ones too.

....we can hardly afford to live & could lose our house too that we’ve had for nearly 20 years.

In other words we feel looked down upon because we don’t work. Along with all my “invisible disabilities” that nobody can see nor understands.

If it wasn’t for my husband I would have given up years ago. Problem is after years of traumatic health events with me have taken their toll on him now.

We both talk about different ways to commit suicide successfully.

It’s not because of mental illness or my physical illness atm.....it’s because of a huge lack of money. Without money we can’t survive. So that’s it in a nutshell.

Sometimes it’s so tough that we both feel like giving up literally....know what I mean? If we don’t get some help soon? I feel it’s just a matter of time until a double suicide shocks our small town.

There are no mental health services to help us out here anymore. There used to be but our Govt cut all rural mental health funding. Yet we have the highest rate of suicide in regional & rural areas than anywhere else in our country.
We both lost nearly all our money after the world financial crisis.

We now both have no money for us to rely on as we age. Apart from the old age pension which is no more than the disability pension that I’m on now. There’s so much more to it too.

I’m so afraid of the psychological damage that this would do to our 2 adult children especially!

Problem is I keep really wanting to die! I haven’t been this bad for many, many years! It’s because of long term life stressors and lack of a decent lifestyle anymore.

We can’t even afford a reliable car & have spent a small fortune fixing the one we have. As out here one can’t survive without a car as there is no form of public transport out here at all. It’s so stressful driving a long way in the country never knowing when our car may break down or not? My nerves can hardly take it anymore & its making us both quite agrophobic which we’ve never been before.

We are both so overwhelmed and frightened by our bleak future....that death seems a better alternative. We are both only in our mid 50s and don’t have enough money to keep on living decently at all. We can’t find any way out no matter how hard we try.

Any ideas would be appreciated? As it may help me/us to keep on going for quite awhile longer.

My heart is broken now after finding my husband in the back room bawling his eyes out! That has truly broken me inside to see such a proud man like that now.

Lack of community, lack of humanity, lack of understanding and compassion is the main problem in western societies now. Nobody cares about anybody else especially not the Govt nor Corporations because they all just want business as usual. People just don’t count anymore because it’s all about the money!