<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32112513</id><updated>2011-04-21T17:13:38.769-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hard Up in Wisconsin</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hardupwisconsin.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32112513/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hardupwisconsin.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>randomthoughts</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06704476125860216439</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1404/2863/1600/doser1.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32112513.post-115509139429791928</id><published>2006-08-08T19:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-08T19:43:14.310-07:00</updated><title type='text'>$264.40 for the co-pays on my prescriptions</title><content type='html'>Yea you read that right.  I have so many pills.  I am starting to feel down again, which sucks.  I feel so unsure of myself and everything I do.  I just cant seem to get anything right.  Its like anything I think yea this will be good, just fails.  Not only fails but hugely fails.  Sometimes I think just killing myself would be the best thing for all parties involved.  I know I am not suppose to think like that, I am not sure why, but anyway.  I look at myself and just think that I will never be anything but a complete and utter failure at everything I try to do.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesnt help my mood that I fell down the steps.  I twisted my ankle, and have a huge bruise on my butt hip area.  It hurts with every step.  It also looks hidious.  I als broke out and my face looks awful, and ugly.  Everything sucks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32112513-115509139429791928?l=hardupwisconsin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hardupwisconsin.blogspot.com/feeds/115509139429791928/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32112513&amp;postID=115509139429791928' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32112513/posts/default/115509139429791928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32112513/posts/default/115509139429791928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hardupwisconsin.blogspot.com/2006/08/26440-for-co-pays-on-my-prescriptions.html' title='$264.40 for the co-pays on my prescriptions'/><author><name>randomthoughts</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06704476125860216439</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1404/2863/1600/doser1.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32112513.post-115459710925469271</id><published>2006-08-03T01:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T02:25:09.266-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Well I know there are a lot of these blogs around figured I'd join the crowd</title><content type='html'>This is a blog about money.  I spend too much.  I have been really sick for 3 long years, trying so hard to work full time and having to leave positions because I am too ill to keep them.  I have medical bills over ten thousand dollars.  I have credit card bills of around ten thousand, and I have a school loan looming at around thirty thousand.  That is a lot of money that I don’t have.  To compound all of this is my prescriptions for one month are over two hundred and fifty dollars for the co-pays.  I am drowning and I am not even in water.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel odd asking strangers to help me.  My illness is severe bi-polar.  It honestly makes my life a living hell.  I wish I had a disease I could at least talk about without feeling like I am somehow a moral and social burden.  I feel like people see me and think, what a lazy useless person.  When I feel down its really easy to believe that I am useless, worthless and that I should just end my own life.  In the last year and a half I have been hospitalized ten times.  Two of the times I tried to over does and cut my wrists.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that some people don’t believe that depression is a real heath problem.  I think they see me as lazy and worthless.  That I am morally corrupt and am trying to get a free ride.  What’s worse is I feel that way about myself.  If I try harder or pretend like I am fine that this will go away, that I won’t want to be dead all the time.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I take fifteen pills a day, trying to over come this.  I go to a therapist and a psychiatrist on a regular basis.  I try so hard to be normal, whatever that means.  I feel so lost and helpless.  I feel like I have been tossed in an ocean and I don’t know how to swim.  This is why I need the help with the money.  I don’t know how else I will be able to pay the stuff off.  I keep thinking that the only way out of this is to end my life, but someone will have to pay for it.  I can’t take the easy way out.  I have to try to make it through one day, then one more day.  If you can help I need it, if you can offer some words of encouragement I need it.  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