I am 23y/o trying to escape a home that has been horrible for me. My mother constantly yells and expresses hatred for me. She is crazy. She is an emotional burden on me. I have no one that cares about me, no other family. She does not support me in any way besides occasionally stock fridge with the same microwave dinners.
She does not care about me or my future, or if she does she does it's not much and she never shows it, I feel like she would be content if I wasted my life rotting in this house for more years than I've already done.
My health is in a bad state, I have physical and mental illnesses, but I feel like I can't help myself to get better while I'm here, because staying here keeps in me a depressive state.
I am currently on SSDI but my mother pockets it. I think I need to remove her as payee. However, the SSDI is only 500 dollars a month.
I contacted a social services worker to be put on a waiting list for housing for mentally ill with some limited assistance with living, but the list takes up to 2 years. I think this would be ideal but it's also only opportunity I'm aware of.
I studied computer programming, I took some college courses years ago, I am good at it, but I'm not really healthy enough to maintain a job, and I don't drive/never learned and not healthy enough to drive right now. But still, I am interested in doing something to increase my income so I can survive on my own.
Do you have any advice for me? I don't feel like I can wait 2 years for housing. I live in the state of NJ.
Submitted May 15, 2017 at 07:19AM by recraeht http://ift.tt/2pBj11D
