<prompt> Human: Short StoryI am a 29 year old male with some very serious health problems. In the last year I have been diagnosed with Lyme, but I have been suffering with progressively worse health for at least five years. For all practical purposes I am disabled, however I am still working 40 hours a week because I have no financial alternative. I work in a low wage tech support job for a Comcast subsidiary making 10.50 an hour. It is an extremely high stress job with zero opportunity for advancement and has significantly exacerbated my health problems. I got stuck in this job because it is work from home and its the only thing I can hold down with my health condition. I have no family ties or support network to help me out. I have approximately 1500 in an emergency fund which I anticipate needing very soon because I expect to be terminated for poor job performance. My last hope was taking out student loans and attending just a few classes at a local community college so that I might rest and make an honest attempt at recovery which is currently impossible working an extremely high stress job FT when you are essentially disabled. However because I already have a B.S. I am only eligible to receive about 9,500 per year in student loans, and that is before the school takes its cut of several thousand for the price of classes. I estimate that I need about 16,000 minimum take home wage to survive and pay for basic medications. I am desperate for any advice. I have to make a move here in the next couple of months if I am to not die. My health condition is worsening, I am going to be canned at my job, and I have no support network. Disability is not an option because you have to quit your job to qualify and it generally takes a year for the payments to start. Any advice is greatly and desperately appreciated. ...Long Back StoryI believe my health problems started at a young age as I was severely abused both physically and emotionally by my family. As a result of this I developed as a type A personality. I have overworked myself both physically, mentally, and professionally my entire life in attempt to find some kind or love of validation that my family did not provide. Ultimately this has lead to some very severe burnout.I graduated college during the height of the recession around 2008. The first job I took was as a web designer for a small rural company. The owner was a bona fide sociopath and I replaced an employee who attempted to kill himself. The working conditions were horrendous and the constant negativity and job dissatisfaction of my co-workers led me to leave the job abruptly after 8 months. During this time I started to notice some serious health issues like sudden drops in blood sugar. I also suffered from bouts of rage when this happened. During my time with the company I made a plan to get into law school. I devised a system, studied for the LSATs, and got a fullride to a small tier 4 school as I planned. About 4 months into law school is when I know something was really wrong with me. The constant stress was wearing me down. My blood sugar was crashing constantly and severely, and my personality became unstable. By the end of the year the stress was so severe I was throwing up blood from time to time. I decided that even with a full ride and a good class ranking it was not worth the health consequences and I decline to return for my second year. This is when things really started to go bad. I was in an economically depressed part of Kentucky and the only work I could find was a 60 hour a week job working in an Amazon shipping and packing factory for 12 an hour. By this time my blood sugar was crashing constantly and severely every 2 hours. I held out as long as I could but had to quit after six months, I simply could no longer do the job. I moved back to my home town of Pittsburgh with my abusive family because I had no choice. I attempted to recover and work odd labor jobs when I could find them. The familial abuse resumed like I never left and I eventually reached my breaking point. After saving up about 2,000 I packed up my trunk and my girlfriend and I drove out to Colorado in search of greener pastures. The day before I left my little brother beat me up while I was having a blood sugar episode simply out of malice yes, my family really are that big of pieces of shit.When we got to Colorado I picked up short stints of random low wage jobs like painting or waiting tables until I was fired from all of them because of my health. During this time my health completely disintegrated and I was crashing every 2 hours, had chronic fatigue, and some pretty severe mental issues from everything that I had been through. My girl lost interest and emotionally tortured me for the first year in Colorado which also really added to the strain on my mind. She didnt want to be the one to break up with me while I was sick so she just treated me horrible until I had to end it out of desperation. Towards the end of our stint I picked up this job working for a comcast sub-contractor doing wifi support. Here I am doing this dead end job and just getting progressively sicker for the last two years. I am at my wits end and I cant even hold down this work from home gig anymore. The reason I have given the long back story is not for sympathy but rather I believe that all of the trauma in my life has damaged my adrenal and endocrine system. I am not even sure if my Lyme diagnosis is accurate or if I just have PTSD or Adrenal Dysfunction from years of constant stress and abuse. I feel I am out of options and I will die if I cant get out of this situation in the next few months. I feel like I would have an honest shot of recovery if I can get out of the high stress low wage job market for 2 years and just rest and retool my job skills to be employable in my field of web development again. Right now I have been out of my field for so long I am blackballed and unemployable even if I was physically able to. Please help me out here reddit. I am open to any and all suggestions for making the money I need to rest and recover. Legal, grey, or outright felonious does not matter to me. I am as good as dead right now so I really have nothing to lose. Please help me if you have any ideas whatsoever and thank you so very much if you took the time to read all of this. ..P.S. I am a 29 year old white male, there are essentially no public assistance programs available to me. Using a throw away because I am humiliated that my life has come to this.  <response>: A physical and some basic labs could go a long way towards answering a lot of your concerns. I would go do that first. Use your emergency fund and find a good clinic nearby. 