Please help. I need advice fast.
My life sucks right now. I have way more problems than I have solutions and I am currently in the throws of financial ruin. Things are falling apart so quickly that I cannot even keep up catching the pieces anymore. The few pieces I still have hold of do not fit or even figure. They are meaningless and useless to me without the rest. What good is the roof over my head when I cannot pay the rent to keep it there? Everyday I am waiting for the power to go out because I can't pay the bill, or for my phone to go dead, because that bill isn't paid either. Things are that bad.... And for as smart as I know I am, I have no idea where to begin to try and save myself. I feel like I am drowning, and I'm not sure I will surface before I run out of air.
Life is getting the better of me.... and the worst part is that I feel like if I cease to exist, no one will notice for more than a moment that I'm no longer around.
I'm not depressed, just scared as all hell that I won't find a way to keep my life together. I have the strength to get up in the mornings, and look for a job, and try and remain an optimist, but at the end of the day when nothing has changed I cry, and cry allot. I feel very alone, and the fact of the matter is I am alone.
I have a daughter who is 17 and lives with her father, and thank God for him, because he is able to give her what she needs and deserves. Aside, my daughter, all of the family I have left lives 400 miles from me. I've always been the one to offer help and to give shelter to my friends over the years. I've never needed much help, but now when I do, I don't even know who or how to ask for it....
I just pray to God to help me through these hard times, and to please, please not let my world dissolve before my very eyes.
Please anyone, reply with your advice....... It seems my days are very numbered in my present situation....

Thank you......Donna in Ventura
donnaparkay@sbcglobal.net

Well, other than that, how are things going?
Seriously, get a life. We all have bad times. It's what we get off our ass and do about it that makes or breaks us.
I may sound cold, but sitting around whinning doesn't do a dang thing but run the neighbors away.
What makes you think that your problems are worse than everyone elses.
Now is the time to see what you are made of.
I would say good-luck, but luck has nothing to do with it. Its is up to you.
Now, get off your ass and do something about your life.

Next!

lol good ole depressives.

Parkay go to a Docter get subscribed some Prozac Lithium combo and attempt to work from there. Its at least slightly reassuring your didnt post a Paypal link and emplored us to pay you to make your life better.

Good to know in the brink if financial ruin, you did manage to use your computer to connect to the internet and post this message.

Do you have a job?

Here I sit broken hearted, went to sh** but instead I just farted. life sucks :D. Moral to the story sh** or get off the pot.

check every job board out there you will find my resume everywhere. I'm not looking for a had out just some moral support, on a day when i obviously was feeling very bad. Not that any of you would ever understand that. I'm like a cat, and no doubt will land on my feet. No thanks to any of you insensitive types............
Donna

Ok then so youve applied to every job board, I assume youve applied to Agencys in your local area. What are your current skills? Do you have IT skills at all? Any Degree's etc?

Parkay, I'm no doctor, but it sounds like you might be suffering from clinical depression.
If so, and you'll need to be diagnosed by a doctor to make sure, I urge you to go to any number of free or reduced-cost clinics in yr area. They are there to help you.
Secondly, sounds like you miss yr family quite a bit. Maybe there's a way for you to live closer to them, or they can come to you. If not, try to make do with "family" and friends that live in yr area.
Wishing you all the best.

thank you for the advice....... you know i don't feel depressed..... just very claustrophobic. I had a very bad night when making that post, and reading it now I feel a bit silly, but honestly that was exactly how I felt at the time. Things are looking up today as I have 3 interviews scheduled. The first I have already been to,( not real promising) the second, at 3 pm which is local and a job I would very much like to have, and the third a bit farther than I want to travel, but if the money is there and they want me I will take the job. Anyway, I really have no one to talk to about my life, and so it just sort of spilt out when I was writing late last night. I certainly didn't mean to depress anyone nor make them feel sorry for me, I just wanted voice of reason to snap me out of it. And boy did I get it. Some very harsh critics in this group, but I thank them all for their words no matter how hard they were to hear. Wish me luck and I will let you all know how things went. Hopefully no more crying in my posts or on my pillow......
Donna

Have to agree with loki - prozac is the way to go. Everyone is on that drug nowadays.
After you've cheered up a little why not get some job you need no skills for, while you seek out something a little more on your level. Going into an interview when your clearly depressed and have no enthusiam for life isn't going to give the right impression and so you'll feel even more depressed.
And as the cycle goes on theres only way it ends which is never pretty.

We all have bad days! Sometimes it helps just to unload a bit.
Anyway, good luck to you and godspeed.

Originally posted by molandru
Have to agree with loki - prozac is the way to go. Everyone is on that drug nowadays.

Its practically vogue nowadays.

"Be cool... take Prozac"

lol

But the way your pushing the prozac, I'm beginning to think you all may be drug dealers or at least working for the company that makes that shit..... I really don't need it despite what any of you may think.
With regard to my interview, I was neither depressed nor feeling down when I met with the folks at the companies I interviewed with. One of them made me a very good offer, and have asked me to return on Monday to meet with their National Sales Manager. It is a position I am very qualified for, and an excellent company to work for. Should I land this position I will share with you who it is...

Anyway, thanks for all the replys to my post. Good, bad, or indifferent, what meant most to me is that I received any replies at all. At a time when I felt I had no one to talk to, someone was actually listening. That I found to be very comforting.....

Forgive me for feeling sorry for myself, but my moment of weakness and self pity has passed. Pity party has ended, and Donna is ready to face life and all of it's challenges, for better or for worse once again......

Thanks to all you............ Ciao.....

Glad to hear that you are feeling better.
Best wishes on the new opportunities.

wtf

Originally posted by Parkay
But the way your pushing the prozac, I'm beginning to think you all may be drug dealers or at least working for the company that makes that shit.....

Yeh didnt you know?? AllForums sells on the backhand a number of high cost prescription drugs, Prozac, Lithium, Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Celexa, etc.

We are also able to tailor your chemical high requirments to include a number of "legally frowned upon" drugs for that extra boost when your chips are down and the dealer flops an Ace.

jokes.

So yu were looking for pitty from a computer, or atleast from folks you don't know or can't see, know wonder you have problems. Not trying to bust your butt, but if you really have a problem then find a friend loved one etc... not a keyboard that very well could be made up of frauds. Alot of us here are up in years atleast enough so we also know what it is like to not have a job etc... You are not the 1st person to go through these types of problems. I hope you are able to find a good job right along with the other thousands that are looking.

I hope everything works out for you- if you can't get a job outside of your home & your phone is still on go to http://www.verafast.com/job_opportunities.htm
it's what I do as a pt job & they pay weekly -atleast you'll have some money coming in.
Try wahm.com there's a bunch of jobs out there just to get you by.
P.S.
you saved me from asking these people for advice-I really think some of there comments seem intelligent & had considered it b/c I don't have a family but,maybe I'll just hold it in & keep on praying