[Promoted from the diaries by DavidNYC. By now you've surely heard that half of all bankruptcies are brought on by crushing medical bills. More startling is the fact that 75% of people who file for bankruptcy due to medical debt had health insurance. The diary below is the story of one such person.]
Two years ago this month, everything changed. For me, that is. I had a great job, paid my bills, had enough left over for entertainment and a nice dinner out every so often. Things were seemingly fine in my land.
Within a few days, however, I was slowly falling apart due to a horrible onset of severe depression. My world was falling apart and I was falling into the hole of mental illness that seemed to do nothing but continue on and on and on. I wanted the falling to stop, and I was determined to make it stop.
So one a chilly Sunday morning in March of 2003, I opened up a package of razor blades and planned on introducing them to my wrists.
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