My personal crusade will be entering its third year shortly and I'm wondering if it's time for me to hang up my hat and give up.

A bit of background:

Many years ago I was diagnosed with Pure-O variant type of OCD,

After making a good recovery and realising the horror that people go through with mental illness, I decided that my experiences had given me a vast amount of knowledge that if applied to a research project could help people less fortunate than me to make a good recovery.

So I wrote a PhD research proposal surrounding enhanced computerised therapy and submitted it to several universities; I had interviews to discuss my proposal and the academics I spoke with said that my idea and concepts could potentially revolutionise computerised mental health therapies.

So with the likes of Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol, Keele, Staffordshire behind me and the Psychological Services of the biggest mental health Foundation Trust in the country, I thought someone would be willing to at least contribute to funding me but no one has any money but seems to get pound signs in their eyes at the possibilities.

I'm very much willing to downgrade my life style and give up the senior job to do something I feel more fulfilling but I can't commit my time to carrying out the research without having money to keep me sheltered, clothed and fed.

So I'm in pickle not sure where to find funding and when to give up...