Man, I wish some of the stuff that a few embittered people say about me were true. Would have made the past 10 years about a million times less grueling. Took me about 7-8 of them to claw out of the hole of being so broke I needed to ask me dad in Israel for $20 to go buy Advil.

When I discovered I had bed bugs when I was living in NY, I remember sitting on the floor of my tiny apt crying because I had no money and no one to help me do anything. My building manager sent one of his workers to help me several times and I would tip him whatever I could.

Then I got hit with vertigo for an entire year while working for a job that didn't pay well and made me miserable, and I had no path out of it. I remember sitting in the emergency room on New Year's Eve one time because I literally could not stand up without losing balance.

I almost got fired once because I had a vertigo sick day (had to get a doctor's note) and decided to help a coworker a little anyway, but the task I did was not what the boss had given me if he had known I volunteered to help. He screamed at me on the phone for almost an hour.

Do you think that if I had a trust fund or could just ride the magic carpet of nepotism to a better situation that I'd subject myself to those years of fierce depression and a totally miserable life? I worked so, so hard to get out of that situation, and did it all on my own.

Anyway, this really wasn't a woe is me story. Thankfully I'm doing fine these days. I'm just amused that strangers think they know me, or make themselves feel better with the delusion that other people had things handed to them.

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PS: Professional help is good. I would not be where I am now if I hadn't made the decision to ask for it. Your problems are not unprecedented and there's a wealth of knowledge and experience about them that can change your entire perspective.

PPS: This isn't a woe is me story because I did have family I could lean on when I needed it, and I would have never ended up on the street. I didn't grow up poor, but being able to ask your parents for a couple hundred bucks in an emergency is a far cry from having a trust fund.