I need a life coach, someone to tell me what to do - have you considered the army? Just kidding.

Seriously, I rather thought life coaches help people work on their confidence, self-belief, resilience, abilities, skills, behaviour, appearance and so on, rather than tell them what to do as such.

It seems to me that you might well benefit from a life coach, but you also have a very wide range of experience, some of it perhaps rather alarming if I understand you correctly. However if you can bring the two together, life coach and your experience, you would have most unusual and powerful skills and insight. You might in fact be a useful life coach yourself to other people who are, with due respect to you, troubled.

Just a thought.