Melissa Megason

I was like, that's more than my mortgage payment.

It just compounded my depression because it made you so anxious.

It's not like you don't want to pay them off.

I did want to pay them off.

It's just there was no way to.

And I was in my house alone all the time.

And I was trying to pack up 30 years of memories all by myself and trying to get my house ready to be sold so I could get the most out of it I could.

I didn't really want to leave my house because it's my community and I loved it.

I would be fine, like, during the day, and then I would get some sort of trigger, and then all of a sudden it'd be like, I just want to go to sleep and make the noise go away.

The sale of the house, the divorce, not feeling good about myself.

You know, all day long I was getting calls from creditors at work.

So it was all that stuff just piling up at once.

a friend who knew what I was going through had texted me and asked me how I was doing.

And I said, I don't think I'm doing well.

I'm scared.

And she called rescue.

So that was when I finally got the help I needed.

I was hospitalized.

I was like, I can't, I can't do this anymore.

That was my wake-up call.