I make these posts every month, until I pay off my debt, this one is for January 2018. If you’d like to see my old posts you can look: here
Basically I had to withdraw from school because my grandparents died while I couldn’t afford my meds to treat my mental illness, which at the time was only diagnosed as depression, I know now I’m schizophrenic, and have BPD, which were impacting my ability to continue my education without me knowing what they were. I was also suffering from a physical illness that nearly killed me.
I’m now medicated and desperately want to go back to school, however I owe my university $3,946.73, and I can’t go back until I pay that off as my transcripts are frozen. Which is to say, I owe the school directly, this is not a loan to the federal government or a private bank.
My goal is to raise $1028 a month if it’s possible, didn’t make my goal for october, so because of that I’ll maybe be done with my debt april 2018, however I’m willing to wait as long as it takes tbh. So far I’ve went from nearly 14k in debt, to 5k in debt so yall have done quite a lot already to help me.
I did apply for FAFSA for the 2018-2019 school year, and the sooner I get this paid the sooner I can unfreeze my transcripts sign up for classes and apply for this scholarship my university offers under TRIO, which I will get if I apply early enough. So if I make these goals I can go back to school come September 2018 !!! I will have all my classes paid for, and I will have a place to live.
If you think this is a worthy goal my little brother has set up a youcaring and paypal as I’m on SSI so I can’t touch the money without being taken off, so he’s taken it upon himself to help me pay off my debt.
you can donate to youcaring or you can donate to the paypal: here and the paypal email is: [email protected]
Thanks for tolerating this on your dashes, like and reblog if you want to, and maybe consider donating if you want to/are able to. don’t feel bad if you can’t donate or reblog. Every dollar helps, everything yall do helps.
only got about 4 months of this left
Due to all the anon harassment I’ve received I feel like I need to further explain myself, the reason I’m pushing so hard for this is because I live in an abusive household. I’ve been told several times by my parents to kill myself, my dad has told me I deserved to get raped, they’ve physically assaulted me and had me arrested multiple times for things I never did and so on.
I’m legally recognized as disabled and they frequently threaten me by saying they’ll call the police and tell them I’m suicidal which is only further validated by my status as disabled.
The only long term solution I can see out of this is paying off this debt directly owed to my university so I can unfreeze my transcripts. This is not a loan, this isnt something owed to a bank or the government. This is the university holding my transcripts hostage which prevent me from being able to attend any university whatsoever because in order to get fafsa grants and such you need to send ALL transcripts to said university.
Paying off this debt is a long term solution because it allows me the ability to leave my parent’s home and live in Oregon with a friend of mine, finish my degree and finally get a job I can actually handle with my disability. I have a lot of friends in the field of the degree I’m working on who say they will help me get a job once I graduate which would finally allow me to get off disability and actually do something within my abilities.
So no, this is not just me trying to pay off student loans, this is me trying to make a life for myself. One where I will have money to help myself and people like me some day.
With the amount of SSI disability money I get I can barely survive on these funds, it is impossible for me to pay off this debt due to the constant interest being added to it paired with me needing to use these funds to survive on. Nearly everything I make is taken from me by my parents and the funds that aren’t taken from me I use almost entirely for food. The small excess amount is used on things like toothpaste and shampoo.
I am frequently threatened with being kicked out which would make me homeless without internet to attempt to go back to school. I’ve applied for public housing here but they’ve said it would take years before a spot opens up for me. I quite literally have to wait for multiple people to die in order to get access to public housing offered to people like me who are legally declared disabled by the government.
If my parents do kick me out, again, as they have done it before, I will be homeless for years without ever getting housing I can afford on disability. I do not know anyone in this state so there would be no option of staying with friends or relatives, my relatives have for the most part all died.
I really didn’t want to talk about this here but people will not stop harassing me. so here you go. This is the condensed reasoning of why I think it’s important to pay off this debt.
sorry this is so long it’s just I’m being endlessly harassed for reasons why i want/need this money. I do tag this “long post” if you wish to block it using xkit or whatever else.
thank you all so much for your help and support. If you wanna help me/can spare it: currently I’m down to needing $908.88 out of the $1028 for this month.