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15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1890

Hi Kyra,

All I can say may not be very helpful. I can tell you that I worked as a security guard for my University through my undergraduate degree. I worked night shift and was the radio dispatcher for the campus so i had lots of free time in the early hours of the morning to read and write my essays. I was not eligible for grants and I never considered a student loan as I could scrape by with the money I was making. It was a hard time, a huge struggle to work and study and battle alcoholism at the same time... but I finished the degree with honours (MCL). If I had to do it over again, and I couldn't get a job AND study at the same time... I'd take a year off and work a bar in the Caribe to save enough to go one more year at the degree and maybe then work a few hours at night as a waiter or barman. Anything to just get what you want... You have to really want it and stamp all over the obstacles in your mind to getting the degree...

Patrick

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1693

Kyra,

That's what we're here for. If you are feeling down and need to talk to someone in between your therapy sessions, read and post messages, we are here to help and support you.

How did it go with your family members?

Breanne, Bilingual Health Educator

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6

the bank won't give me a loan because of my credit. i'm asking other family members but i don't know if they will do it. i'm in therapy now but in between sessions is when i have problems. its been almost a month since the last one

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1288

kls92588, Sorry to hear you're going through a hard time. Have you thought about applying for a loan through a bank? What about a loan from other family members, (if your parents cannot help)? Most community Health Units offer counceling services or can refer someone to you to talk to. It may be a good idea to get your thoughts out and have someone to chat with on a more personal level. Keep working through the program, and keep your head up high. Sylvie, Bilingual Health Educator

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6

Ok, i've been going to therapy since december for major depressive disorder and anxiety brought on by a major life changing workplace

accident i was in on August 1,2007. I've had two surgeries for the injuries i sustained on that day, both left knee surgery and left shoulder

surgery which i am still in physical therapy for.

I've been coping pretty well until recently when i found out that the almost year i've had my life put on hold and destroyed does not mean

anything to the company i worked for.They want to offer me 1,500 dollars to settle the lost wages portion of my lawsuit against them. I've

been out of work for almost a year and they did not pay me anything for 6 months of that year. This is both dissapointing and appauling to

me, that such a low number would be placed on a year of my life which will now never be the same. I've gone into severe debt, my credit is

ruined (480!!!) and i find out on my trip to Florida to visit my parents that because of them helping me they may loose their house! I only

recieve 310 a month from them company for total temporary disability and my car payment alone is 305 a month. So i cannot afford the

medicine that i am supposed to be on (prozac 20mg once a day) because workers comp denies the claim for psych treatment.

The good part in all of this is that i finally put my mind to it to go back to school a couple weeks ago, i applied at Johonson

and Wales university and two days ago found out i got in! This is good news in the middle of chaos, however because of my credit score i

cannot get a student loan, my parents make too much money for me to recieve federal assistance(and won't help me go to college) and

because of my ok grades in highschool it is unlikely that i will be chosen for a scholarship.

Am i wrong to be on the verge of a major breakdown here? I keep putting on the happy "mask" to make sure no one else knows how i feel

but after so long i'm starting to find even that harder to do every day. I want my life back, it may not have been perfect then but i know i was

at least financially better off and not living in this black hole i'm in now. Does anyone know of a way for me to go to school or to get financial help?

(i'm not exaggerating on any of this, i have many more issues but this is the main one)

Thanks in advance for any replies

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