My F'd Up Past - and Future Hope

[DanaC]

Fresh that was really nicely put.

I have been in a lot of debt and felt like there was no way out SG and know how humiliating it and what surrounds it can be.

Me too....my solution was to learn to live with the humiliation :P I jest. I don't think debt should have such a taboo as society has placed on it. We live in a world where debt practically throws itself at you and where everything in life, from the roof over your head to the bread in your belly, relies on having a flow of cash. It's hard not to accrue debt of some sort. If you then happen to be one of the many millions of people whose future life turns out not to meet the expectations they had when they took the debt on....

SG take your doctor's advice and don't rush things. Having no income and living on benefits sucks ( I know, I've been there) but it's not the worst thing in the world. There should be no shame attached at all to you accessing what is yours under the social contract that your country has forged.

Nor should there be stigma for people who have to deal with depression or addiction. If you lead a life that leaves you physically battered the world's sympathy and understanding is yours. What if you are battered by life in less obvious ways? All these people (myself included) who've posted in the Cellar about having suffered depression, or followed an addiction. Who can get through life without losing their balance from time to time?

Look how far you've come already from where you were in Spring. And I don't mean geographically speaking either:P You're doing great Sundae. I'm proud of you mate.