I get the feeling you're a bit isolated from friends and family. Going things alone is ten times harder than when you have a support network. I wish I could be there for you more than virtually.
I don't know what, if any, kind of support there is for people in the U.S. and I'm guessing it's different from state to state, too. I do know that welfare there is appalling and I'm amazed anyone can survive on it. I gather that food is cheaper than here, but I don't think you can really call that food, especially when you have a lot of intolerances. I sometimes wonder if the U.S. is trying to poison it's poorer population to death.
Is it easy for you to exchange Steem? How would you say it costs for a week of groceries?
BTW, I'm in agreement with Art, try to get in touch with your power company to negotiate with them. As long as you're trying to pay the debt, they shouldn't cut you off.
I don't get any form of welfare. I used to get food stamps, but they kept making it harder and harder to reapply even though my situation hasn't changed. They deny most people disability several times and maybe you'll get it after years of appeals and a workload equivalent to being able to work to fight for it - which I don't have the ability to do - but I would never win an appeal anyway because I don't take drugs, and they will deny you if you don't take drugs, or haven't tried literally ALL the drugs. A friend of mine worked in that department and saw an epileptic person get denied because there was one drug they hadn't tried ...which they couldn't afford without insurance ...which they couldn't get insurance without a job ...which they couldn't get a job because they were seizing several times a day. They even had a seizure right there in the disability office. Still denied.
So yeah, our "welfare" kinda-sorta helps some people but mostly denies people and exists to be able to say "if they really deserved it, there would be help, everyone is just lazy."
But I digress.
I'm feeling a bit better because I just ate, actually - a FB friend literally ordered me a pizza and had it delivered to my apartment. <3 My online friends are awesome. But yeah, I am pretty isolated in person. I will go months a lot of the time without seeing a friend. I see my mom once a month. That's about it.
I just need to vent sometimes when I'm feeling really low and hopeless. Thank you for hearing me out. :)
Damned at every turn. I don't know how you manage.
Glad you have some amazing friends on Facebook and are feeling a little better today.
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That's how it feels, yeah. Like, things that shouldn't be big snowball into this enormous problem that could have been staved off early if only one little thing had gone right.
I read some report a while back about how, in order to escape poverty, you have to literally have NOTHING go wrong for A DECADE - then, maybe, you'll do it. Otherwise, you're stuck.
Depression can make you feel and/or be an isolated person. But reach out! You already are just posting here!
The internet is definitely my social network. I don't know where I'd be without my online friends! <3