YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

I was forced to move back home so that I could try to get my mental health back in order but it's only made it a whole lot worse. I'm in such a rural area I feel like I've been under house arrest for a year. I can't get a job, and I can't get mental health care. Now I'm about to be kicked out. I should have never come back but I was afraid I'd kill myself and was trying to take some control over my life but now I don't have any independence anymore. I hate my life.

Thank you for sharing.

We are only as sick as our secrets.

so sorry to hear about your situation TS

Thankfully I'm still here, but it's always looming. I'm a codependent person, and now there's this threat overhead that if my mother has one bad move and I could be on the street. I'm a goddamn adult, and I hate not having a place of my own where I can feel like an adult and be responsible for my own life.

Thanks for sharing. I'm in much the same situation. For me living paycheck to paycheck has been a terrible idea, now that I have to come up with a deposit out of thin air on short ntoice! (btw, coincidentally I'll be posting in my anxiety thread about trying to find a place.)

Is there anything that can change as far your finances and/or professional or earning ability?