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Old Nov 23, 2012, 07:53 AM
TheTimelessness TheTimelessness is offline
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We're still trying to find a way to make things work. But I don't know what to do anymore.

  • My girlfriend is working with a therapist who specializes in dialectical behavior therapy. This therapist is really experienced in helping battered spouses escape an abusive marriage when they have literally zero financial means. So we're all going to sit down together to try to create some plan.
  • I'm going to try to see another therapist for myself in the short amount of time that I have remaining before the police forcibly evict me.
  • Community mental health services are apparently both stretched very thin but also run by assholes. Finding a case handler to help me function and find employment isn't going to be an option because I'm not incontinent.
  • Welfare to work programs is something I'm going to look into asap.
  • I guess I need help building a better resume but I don't know what to do if I have no work history. (The only job I ever had ended under poor terms. I couldn't sleep anymore because the physical pain terrible I had to quit. They really valued me and wanted me to stay full time.)
  • I've already been to several career centers and temp agencies. The staff at these one stop career centers are truly wonderful people who really care. But there honestly wasn't much that they could do for me.
  • My occupational therapist has advised me never, ever, inform an employer of my medical conditions. I'm protected by the ADA and in her thirty some years of experience in helping people like me, patience is the best solution to finding work.
  • I'm ineligible for vocational aid. My health insurance runs out in under six months. Next week I'm giving my doctor an ultimatum. I want to go under the knife if it'll make things better. Even if that's risky. If surgery doesn't help me I will destroy my arm. I know exactly what to do, and how I'll go about cutting this arm off. I want to be an amputee. As screwed up as it is, our system is built to help an amputee much better than somebody with nerve damage.
  • We're going through the system for section 8 and low income housing. The two of us have no credit which isn't going to be good. The process is simply going to take far too many years. But we'll try.
  • Right now I'm looking at halfway housing and shelters. I'm not a women. There are no shelters for abused men. The homeless shelters are closed during the winter. While halfway houses on the other hand are all for ex-convicts, and drug addicts. Maybe I should buy meth? I know a few dealers. Would prison be a good idea to stay out of the cold? That doesn't help my future, or my girlfriend very much. I'd honestly much rather prefer to die instead. The military isn't an option because I have a nerve problem... Alongside two very mild spinal deformities...


Any other ideas? I'm really, really, really desperate right now.