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I don’t really know what Im asking for.

I am deeply in debt, mostly due to a large school loan debt. I have no job, cannot find work and even when I have worked I have not been able to hold a job due to severe social anxieties. I have attempted to get on disability twice and have been denied both times. I have applied to well over hundreds of jobs in the past year and have only gotten one interview.

Long story short I feel like I am at the end of my rope, and I do not know what to do. I feel like the only thing I can do to keep my husband and son from suffering from my debt is by ending my life. Dying or becoming permanently disabled are the only ways to erase my debt. I don’t want to hurt my family, but in the end I feel like doing this will be the best I could do for them.

SH

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alicia_smile23 offline Verified User (10 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (4 minutes after post)

I promise you that they would much rather have you than any amount of money!!

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Michael Leibman offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
Littleton, CO, US | 10 months, 1 week ago (5 minutes after post)

I don’t really know what Im asking for.

I think perhaps: rationality, logic, mental clarity, advice, inspiration, ideas, hope, solutions, life-plans, and happiness.

That’s what it looks like first glance for me.

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painted_lady_1 offline Verified User (10 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (19 minutes after post)

alicia_smile2 wrote:
I promise you that they would much rather have you than any amount of money!!

I know what you mean, but right now..it doesn’t seem or feel that way. I just want them to be out of the misery that they are in, because of me.

SH

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painted_lady_1 offline Verified User (10 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (19 minutes after post)

Michael Leibman wrote:

I don’t really know what Im asking for.

I think perhaps: rationality, logic, mental clarity, advice, inspiration, ideas, hope, solutions, life-plans, and happiness.

That’s what it looks like first glance for me.

Yeah, I guess so. Just don’t know if there is anything else that makes more sense to me right now.

SH

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alicia_smile23 offline Verified User (10 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (31 minutes after post)

Where do you live?

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painted_lady_1 offline Verified User (10 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (42 minutes after post)

alicia_smile2 wrote:
Where do you live?

Iowa

SH

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spiratec9 offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 11 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 10 months, 1 week ago (2 hours, 20 minutes after post)

how to find a job:
Go to a store you would like to work in.
E.g. a music store.Cd’s etc.
Stand around and look at stuff as though you are a customer.
When you hear some other customer talking about some
music,go over and approach them.
Strike up a friendly conversation about the music of interest.
Keep doing this until the store manager sees you doing it.
If he comes over and talks too you ,tell him you would love
to work here.
Be patient with this method.It may take some time for it to work.
Obviously you need to know stuff about music.

e.g. a hardware store.
Help people find stuff and advise them.
Help carry there stuff or whatever.
Make yoursef look friendly and helpful.
Irresistable.

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painted_lady_1 offline Verified User (10 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months, 1 week ago (11 hours, 21 minutes after post)

spiratec9 wrote:
how to find a job:
Go to a store you would like to work in.
E.g. a music store.Cd’s etc.
Stand around and look at stuff as though you are a customer.
When you hear some other customer talking about some
music,go over and approach them.
Strike up a friendly conversation about the music of interest.
Keep doing this until the store manager sees you doing it.
If he comes over and talks too you ,tell him you would love
to work here.
Be patient with this method.It may take some time for it to work.
Obviously you need to know stuff about music.

e.g. a hardware store.
Help people find stuff and advise them.
Help carry there stuff or whatever.
Make yoursef look friendly and helpful.
Irresistable.

Thanks for the advice. I have tried, but it is difficult for me with my social anxiety. I still try though, because I know how badly I need the money. It seems like no matter what I do or how hard I try though, nobody is interested in even giving me an interview. Not even fast food restaurants. :(

SH

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aliashim offline Verified User (10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 20 #
An Unknown Location | 10 months ago (1 week, 1 day after post)

Hmm, you may have social anxiety, but you do seem to have good communicative skills.
At least your story and answers were clear, intelligent, polite and to the point.
You say that you’re still trying, which indicates you have a reasonable amount of self-discipline and common sense.
If it is mostly the feeling of uncertainty about yourself and what other people might think of you that is the problem, perhaps a job where you’re not too concerned with social interaction but where you can use your skills by getting work done.
And about the debt:
you may feel guilty about having it, but that is a situation you don’t have the freedom to completely undo. Noone should have to feel guilty about not doing the impossible. So what about the possible.
The freedom you have is doing what you can to decrease it, by trying to take a professional look at your finance and look for ways to decrease spending and increase income.
For as far as you are already doing this, there is no reason to feel guilty about it,
and if you see things that can make a difference and you are not already doing consider them an opportunity to improve your way of dealing with the situation.
From the moment you start using these opportunities again, there’s nothing to feel guilty about.

And about your family and/or friends
Since apparently you don’t have a job at the moment, you probably have the time to support them in what they are doing.
Most likely, you already do.
Don’t underestimate the value you (can) have in such a way.
You may not realise often enough that on the long run it may far be of greater worth than the negative number on your bankaccount.

These are some thoughts I have.
Hopefully there’s something of value in it for you,
even though of course I cannot understand your situation as you do.

All the best,

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painted_lady_1 offline Verified User (10 months, 1 week) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 9 months, 4 weeks ago (1 week, 1 day after post)

Thank you so much. I really appreciate every word you said. Like you said yes, I am still trying. It is just hard to not feel guilty. I don’t know, I just feel like there is something I am not doing well enough or right. I know it is hard out there for everyone right now, I don’t know how some people make it.

I just wish there was something that could just give me even an extra $100-200 a month. It seems though that there is very little here hiring and those that are I either do not qualify for or have no interest in someone like me. It’s very frustrating.

I do not think of suicide to end MY pain, only to better the lives of my family. I just wish I could live a day without it being a thought that crosses my mind or something I actually dream of. I often go to bed hoping that I will just not wake up.

That is a very hard and odd emotion to deal with.

Samantha

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