Strength is in connections. It seems like you have some friends in Ohio. Rely on them while you’re there. It looks like from some of your posts that you are thinking of moving to Oregon. If you do, find a good community and get connected. Like I said, Oregon is less likely to fall to Trump than other states. I think OHP is less risky, and I would advise using the free healthcare and taking meds if they help you. Most meds can also be titrated down instead of quitting cold turkey. Plus have you researched grey market meds online? There aren’t enough therapists, it’s true, but at least here in Oregon, you can go to a county run mental health outpatient facility and get a therapist with maybe a month of waiting time. I know this because I am a therapist myself, or will be when I finish school.

No residency, you can get OHP immediately!

Coming from a trans person in Oregon who got my passport changed last year out of paranoia, I wonder if you’re overreacting. I think Oregon and other states like Washington, California, and northeastern states are friendly to lgbt folk, and it will be a hard fight if Trump wants to stop us from having rights. Portland is a metro area friendly to lgbt, and if you have no income, you can get on the Oregon health plan for free healthcare. I’m worried about you saying that you don’t want to get on meds because you are afraid of the withdrawals. Of course you should make the decision you think is best, but isn’t it better to have good mental health now rather than have bad MH in the hopes of avoiding your fear sometime in the future? Take care of yourself, remember that there is no certainty in life, there are risks in exposing yourself as mentally unhealthy, but there are also risks in not getting the help you need.

I think the reason this chart doesn’t feel right is because for substances we regularly ingest, a more useful scale would be the ratio of the lethal dose to the effective dose, since we use a different mg amount to get high on THC than we use to lower pain on acetaminophen

Oh, I misread your comment, my bad.

Not true - faxes are widely in use in Healthcare due to hipaa rules

A better idea is to go to irs.gov and use their free file wizard to see which service is free for you. I used 1040.com this year. Last year I used freetaxusa.com, but this year that would not have been free for me due to my change in income. Which service is free depends on your state, income, and income complexity.

I have multiple bank accounts for me and my wife. My wages get direct deposited into my “monthly Bills” checking account. Then I have a spreadsheet that calculates how much needs to stay in there and how much needs to go to other accounts. I have a groceries account and a joint spending account, which is mostly for take-out food. Then what’s leftover gets split into personal spending money for each of us. I often cheat, and move money from one account to another, but before I do that, I always make sure I’m keeping track of regular monthly bills and other needs. It’s envelope budgeting, but without cash.

One point I’d like to make is that I have a good job now, but most of my life I’ve lived in poverty. It’s hard or impossible to budget under such circumstances, and you just have to sorta do your best day to day. It wasn’t till I had reliable steady work that I’ve been able to do well budgeting.

Idk what that was, but thank you.