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Why thank you, @blackdog! I am quite happy about that little speech.

And I agree with you, being on welfare does not prepare you for going back to being a worthy human being. I had to apply for it when I became severely depressed, because as a student you have no rights, basically. Not to a-kassa (unenployment benefit) or the sjukförsäkring (health insurance benefit thingy.)

Anyway, after having turned in about 60 different documents and having met with a social worker, I was found to be in need of the welfare. Don’t know how much you get in the U.S, but here they pay your rent, electricity, some meds, insurances and then you get an amount to live on. 600 bucks, it translates into. Had to pay for food, telephone, broadband, transportation and everything else. Remember everything is more expensive here. =) I had to empty my wardrobe and home of everything of value to even get by. This while being suicidal. Not fun. Not encouraging in any way. After six months I went back to school even though I was far from ready. Also got a job at the college library here in town and worked nights and saturdays. Not sure how I managed, but I got by.

I will always be a leftie. I will always believe in the people, in supporting and helping each other. That makes what is happening in Sweden, and Europe, even the more frightening, as racist and even nazi parties make their way into the governments. How can we have possibly forgotten what happened here not even a hundred years ago? Frightens the living daylights out of me.

Enough with the politics for now. 🙂

This is day seven on Strattera, I am still doing well. Sleeping normally, waking up happy. I have energi and patience. I clean and organize a lot at home, and I am currently working on a job application for a job I would really like, as a librarian responsible for the children over 12, teens, young adults, students and immigrants learning Swedish. This is in a smaller town 30 km away, but the bus ride only takes 20 minutes. I am already working extra there, so it would be just amazing. I also think they would be ok with me and my ADD.
How is everyone else doing?
 

 

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