Sense of personal pride, accomplishment, and self sufficiency.
Granted, I haven't been fully self sufficient for a while and have relied on the financial assistance of friends and family for a place to live for a fe years now. I greatly prefer this to being financially dependant on the state. I've felt as if I sign onto some sort of welfare or disability system and collect a monthly cheque that it would sort of solidify my (past) mental state as permanent and be like giving up/throwing in the towel etc and I just could NOT do that or I'd have been even more depressed about my inability to provide for myself despite my relative intelligence. So, I never have collected any sort of welfare. In hindsight, I'd be a bit better off financially if I had collected some form of assistance over the last few years.. but I don't regret not doing so as it was better for my mental health not to, to just persevere and figure out a way to get better.
My health is much better now and I've been back to work for a bit and continue to get better and better and look forward to being financially self sufficient in the near future. It's a much much better feeling than feeling like you're mooching off of taxpayers paying your way through life while you do nothing to help yourself. Granted, if you're incapable of helping yourself, that's a different story and what government assistance is for until you're well enough to get back to work.
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for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.