Ask Kuwait Mental health since losing my Kuwaiti citizenship
I'm writing this because I don't know where else to turn, and I am desperately hoping someone here has been through something similar or can offer some advice. Recently, my Kuwaiti citizenship was revoked and my life has completely spiraled out of control ever since.
The mental toll this has taken on me is indescribable. I have been struggling deeply with severe depression and intrusive suicidal thoughts. It feels like my entire identity, security, and future were erased overnight, leaving me in a terrifying limbo. The isolation makes it so much worse cause many of my cousins and relatives still have their citizenship, so I am one of the very few in my family who lost it. I feel like an outsider looking in on a life I used to belong to. It is a very lonely kind of grief, and it feels like no one around me truly understands the panic I am waking up to every single day.
Practically, my life has come to a complete standstill. I can't even access my bank account anymore, which leaves me financially stranded and helpless. I know I need to sort things out, but the government institutions require a mountain of complex paperwork just to figure out my status. The problem is, I am in such a dark place mentally that I can barely function. Just getting out of bed in the morning and brushing my teeth feels like an impossible, exhausting task, let alone navigating hostile government bureaucracies while fighting off panic attacks.
I just want a way out. I feel like my only option to have a future is to immigrate to the UK or the US and start completely over, but I have absolutely no idea how to do that or what visa/asylum pathways even apply to my situation.
Has anyone navigated a sudden loss of citizenship like this? How do you even begin the immigration process when your accounts are frozen and you're stripped of your legal standing? How do you keep going when you've hit rock bottom? Any advice, resources, or just words of support would mean the world to me right now. I feel so incredibly lost.