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It sounds like you are suffering a mentally illness. You need to see a doctor and get medication for it. What city are you in? If you leave a question at Ask Me

It sounds like you are suffering a mentally illness. You need to see a doctor and get medication for it. What city are you in? If you leave a question at Ask MetaFilter and Reddit about where to find financial aid and resources for someone in your city, you can get lots of answers. In fact, there may already be answers you need there. Do some searches and check it out. Look, I have been homeless several times in my adult life (I'm now 40). You can survive and get out, but you need to get help for your mental condition first. That should be your #1 priority. Please: get treatment for your mental condition ASAP. You need a functioning mind to navigate your life to a better place.

cyberbeggar 14y ago
What medication is going to help me? Antidepressants that cause brain fog and increase my serotonin levels so I'm delusionally happy? Antipsychotics that inhibit dopamine and therefore any hope of concentration? Hypnotics or benzos to inebriate me from anxiety? Marijuana to destroy my short term memory? Modafinil or other stimulants? Perhaps some X-treme Brain Hacks like ECT or massive brain trauma will solve my overthinking? I'm quite familiar with this field, and I've been recently evaluated as completely mentally well by two mental health professionals, a career psychiatrist and a general mental evaluation practitioner. I have papers to prove it. Even so, how do you suppose I get to the doctor or pay for this medication? Remember, I'm hardcore into the startup lifestyle, going at it with all I've got, just like I read on here! I need help with food first before I could even dream of that luxury, and please don't make assumptions based on your superficial armchair diagnosis. I don't quality for state help because I'm not registered in the state. But even if I was... I'm in the Bay Area. There's definitely not a problem with mental illness here, social services has it all covered! Come on out, kids! Come achieve your dreams of being a hacker and get back at the bullies! Trust us, we're your heroes! For every kid that makes a million bucks from YC (and is then promptly sucked into development hell for a decade) there are a hundred more that end up like me. Don't gloss over it, because that makes YOU responsible. Don't give me this sad little naive dismissal about "navigating my life." My mind works fine. This isn't a utopian society and people fall through the cracks every day. How many kids are going to end up homeless trying to be like that AOL kid? Look at LA and what Hollywood does! What is truly mentally ill is believing you're going to change the world and make a billion dollars from your useless cloud todo list app or whatever. Half of these startups are funded because they were college buddies with a junior VC, or it's a company showing how big and tough their balls are by dumping some huge amount of money on a random target to show corporate dominance.

cyberbeggar 14y ago

What medication is going to help me? Antidepressants that cause brain fog and increase my serotonin levels so I'm delusionally happy? Antipsychotics that inhibit dopamine and therefore any hope of concentration? Hypnotics or benzos to inebriate me from anxiety? Marijuana to destroy my short term memory? Modafinil or other stimulants? Perhaps some X-treme Brain Hacks like ECT or massive brain trauma will solve my overthinking? I'm quite familiar with this field, and I've been recently evaluated as completely mentally well by two mental health professionals, a career psychiatrist and a general mental evaluation practitioner. I have papers to prove it. Even so, how do you suppose I get to the doctor or pay for this medication? Remember, I'm hardcore into the startup lifestyle, going at it with all I've got, just like I read on here! I need help with food first before I could even dream of that luxury, and please don't make assumptions based on your superficial armchair diagnosis. I don't quality for state help because I'm not registered in the state. But even if I was... I'm in the Bay Area. There's definitely not a problem with mental illness here, social services has it all covered! Come on out, kids! Come achieve your dreams of being a hacker and get back at the bullies! Trust us, we're your heroes! For every kid that makes a million bucks from YC (and is then promptly sucked into development hell for a decade) there are a hundred more that end up like me. Don't gloss over it, because that makes YOU responsible. Don't give me this sad little naive dismissal about "navigating my life." My mind works fine. This isn't a utopian society and people fall through the cracks every day. How many kids are going to end up homeless trying to be like that AOL kid? Look at LA and what Hollywood does! What is truly mentally ill is believing you're going to change the world and make a billion dollars from your useless cloud todo list app or whatever. Half of these startups are funded because they were college buddies with a junior VC, or it's a company showing how big and tough their balls are by dumping some huge amount of money on a random target to show corporate dominance.