<prompt> Human: I started Medical school in 2010. After a year and a half of studying 80 hours per week and getting 4 hours of sleep a night, I had a nervous breakdown. The result was me failing a few classes so I withdrew from the program I was one failed class away from getting kicked out. I had racked up 75K in student loans during that time, my wife had also accumulated 15K at nursing school. We both started working full time at a clinic, each earning 10hr. Even on both those jobs we were still going negative with our minimum loan payments. So, when we eventually were broke, we packed up and moved into my parents basement. The expenses all on credit cards. From when I started keeping track we paid 10K in interest I didnt keep track at the start, so it is more. That all adds up to 100K. I described it at that time as a suicidal amount of debt Which is really how I felt. There were many dark days. I am now 30 years old btw.Here is the balance Here is todays last payment Here is my records of our payments. I obviously didnt start keeping a log at the start, so I am missing all the minimum payments made before that date, which only covered the interest. This also doesnt show the credit card debt, which was about 2K-3K. There was also interest on the nursing debt, but I just estimated the payments there. so that also should be probably 500 in interest there.After trying to get some odd jobs, and applying for more grad school, I realized that if I were going to pay off these loans quickly I would have to start my own company. I was unable to find a job that would pay more than 10-12hr. apparently biology degrees dont mean much, and 60 credits of med school dont mean much either.So I started a business while my wife was a nurse. Once the business started doing well, we lived on 2000 per month rent, food, utilities, etc. If we made anything extra it went to the loans. I worked about 12 hours per day, 6 days a week during this time. Then this month we pooled all our money together and put off buying inventory so that we could just get rid of all the loans this month. So now all our accounts are depleted and so is our debt. I think I should start taking Saturdays off now :I accidentally found Dave Ramsey. That was a big motivation for me. Does anyone know of similar style of show but for investing instead of getting out of debt? I think I need to start learning about that now.There were a couple big motivations for me that were a big help. I listen to them often. This video is a big one Also this audio book has helped me set and reach goals. I am only making this post because at the start, we were making about 12K per year, with 100K in debt and it really just seemed impossible. I thought my entire life was ruined. But through very hard work we are now able to finally start moving forward. I hope that if anyone reads this and is where I was mentally at that time, I want you to know that you can do it too.TLDR: left med school and accumulated about 100K in debt. Paid it off by living in our means and making extra payments.  <response>: I have never been so happy to be broke.I prefer the term money neutral. 