Mark, sometimes it's hard to make such changes. I'm not saying it's impossible...but put yourself in my position. I got a late start on life. When I got to middle school, I became a trouble maker and started ditching school, smoking pot (plus other drugs) and breaking car windows. Why? I can't answer that question...I was a kid. This lasted all the way until I was in my early 20's. I got locked up for a year in 2007...when I got out in 2008, I turned my life around...I started working full-time jobs, got a car, my license, my own apartment and started thinking about my future.

I got laid off in 2010, broke up with my psychotic ex-girlfriend, left her alone at the apartment we were staying in and moved in with a friend...I wanted more out of life, realized that working dead-end jobs were getting me nowhere...so I started looking in to school...and that's when I got hit in the head and my life changed. Now I can't work, I can't go to school, I have little to no money...and my family is middle-classed. They don't have the money to support me, help me get on my feet and in to my own place. I'm stuck living with my mom and 3 younger siblings, plus a nephew and 2 annoying little dogs.

We had a discussion awhile back and you suggested that I move in to a weekly, or rent a room from someone. I'm on Unemployment. I worked 2 jobs my entire life that were close to minimum wage that both lasted a year each. I'm getting hardly anything. Right now I'm struggling to pay $200 a month to my mom and keep up with the costs of having a son. So what do I do?

I've found ways to work around my flaws, I see tiny improvements here and there but I can only do so much while living with a house full of people that hardly respect me. My mom expects too much from me, my younger siblings don't listen to me when I ask them to keep it down and the father of my sister's kid comes over playing music and rapping after I've asked him numerous times to stop.

Last night, I sat down with my mom and I told her I can't help my sister get her and her son to their doctor's appointments anymore. I finally admitted that I'm just not capable of helping anyone. I can barely help myself. It was hard on her but she accepted it...today we talked about it again and she apologized to me for being so hard on me and thanked me for everything I've done for my siblings.

Stress...my life is full of it. My ex-fiance has my son right now, I can take him if I want...but having full custody and no help with him is counter-productive to my recovery. I will never get any rest, I will never have peace and quiet. She's too incompetent to take care of him on her own...3 days ago she took him to the ER and they sent him home saying if he doesn't get better in a couple days to bring him back. He is still sick. In fact he's worse and what does she do? Nothing.

I'm stuck. I want to get out on my own again but I'm disabled and broke. I'm buying a used car in a week with money my mom is giving me out of her taxes, after that I have nothing but the pebbles that Unemployment gives me. When my SS gets accepted, I'll only be getting $10 more a month.

So, explain to me what someone in my position should do. You moved 650 miles away to get away from noise, etc. I can't do something like that. I don't have a wife that works and I don't have money saved up.

This is my life right now, in a can. I could keep going but you get the picture. It's partially my fault for being such a screw up in my early years, but it's really the (insert favorite insult here) that hit me in the head for no reason that ruined my future.

I've formed somewhat of a plan for the future, but it involves me healing a bit more before I can do it. I want to get in to the buying used cars at the auction, fixing them up and selling them on Craigslist deal. It's profitable and doesn't take much effort...but my brain just can't handle that kind of work right now. Maybe some day if I can ever find a healing chamber...

...or a magic brain injury pill.