If you have a supportive pdoc and lawyer for SSD, Stay put and use them. I'm serious. You can always move 20 minutes after the paperwork comes in okayed. But until then, you are going to need every ounce of support you can get to back you up. Your ex will just have to deal with you remaining in the area. Let him move, if he hates it so much.

As for roommating it, I took three people- at different times- into my home, and had the usual trials and tribulations. I had to kick out one, she was schizo and went off her meds. We got along really well while she stayed medicated, but then I caught her smoking pot on elementary school grounds, in my car. Not wanting to lose the house or car to the drug laws, I evicted her. Lesson there: Never get your roommates from the psych unit, even if you are on it with her! The second was an elderly lady and we got on quite well for 9 months. The third was an RN and rarely home, so I had a lot of time to myself. The hardest thing i found about living with others was that I'm not a good judge of character and am easily fooled by prospectives. The easiest thing - never take in some one else who has MH/MI problems. I had enough trouble keeping myself stable without having the moods of another to deal with.

~Buggs