Well... I'm a 23 year old college student. I live in Michigan, which is kinda undergoing it's own little great depression. I'm already $15,000 in debt for a multitude of reasons (student loans, credit card debt, social security). I didn't spend my money recklessly, I just got stuck in a lot of bad situations. All my credit card debt is from trying to pay bills from back when I shared a apartment with my brother who didn't want to pay his share. I was sick for a while, I have aplastic anemia and I was on disability for 4 years but social security decided that I wasn't sick for the last year (not true) and now they want me to pay back their money. Not only that but they cut off my health insurance so I have no idea what's going on with my body. I'm supposed to go to the doctor every 3 months and stay on medication because my platelet level still isn't normal but I can't pay for any of that.
I don't have any immediate family, my mom left when I was a baby and my dad, well you know how it is with them.... I don't even know him at all. I still have my family on my mother's side but they are less than concerned with my well being. Don't get me wrong they're involved in my life but recently I've come to the conclusion that they do just enough so that they can sleep at night (which isn't very much at all, which says a lot about how compassionate they are in the first place). It used to really bother me but lately I realized I have to get over it and move on if I'm going to survive in the world. I can't keep playing their games and trying to test them on how much they care. It has caused set backs in my life because instead of making decisions based off of what I know I can do on my own, I made them based off their lies and empty promises and I ended up getting stuck with the bill so to speak.
Right now I'm trying to move, I can't even begin to get into the reasons why I have to get away from my family, I will say it's deeper than just not getting along. They are literally hindering me from moving on in life. But I mainly need to move so that I'm closer to school and can take the bus everyday. I don't have a car and I can't drive because no one wants to teach me. I will learn when I get the money to take classes and get a car. But I don't know how that's gonna happen.
I also need to move because I can find a job easier in the city. My family doesn't want to drive me to work either and there are not any buses near me. I managed to find a job down the street but they barely give me 10 hours a week. Not only that but sometimes it seems like I have trouble getting my family to drive me down the street! So I need to be somewhere where I can take care of myself. Luckily I have a boyfriend who supports me the best way he can but he can only do so much. We're both young and not even out of school yet making minimum wage. He can't take care of me and I don't expect him to.
Sigh... I'm just trying to catch a break out here...
