My very disabled partner (not married) is in desperate need of a new desktop which will cost upwards of $2000. This might not sound serious but I assure you all that it is a very real, very critical medical need for my partner. I have spent the last several hours near him in part because ever since his laptop broke he has been dangerously suicidal. We have already taken many severe financial hits these last few weeks on top of inflation and...every other awful thing about this economy.
I already opened a new line of credit a few days ago before this current crisis (which I am still waiting to get the card for so I can actually use it), but the credit limit is too low to cover this expense. I am considering taking out a personal loan. I could ask either parent because they are both well-off, but it makes my skin crawl to ask for even $200, let alone $2000.
So I feel compelled to take out a personal loan. I have decent credit, but I am still stricken with anxiety. I have never done this before, I am not about to ask my parents or friends for help, and I am autistic as hell and worry I will be exploited or make some other obvious error and sink myself deeper. I'm scared and I don't know what to do.
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Diagnoses: AS, Depression, General & Social Anxiety
I guess I just wasn't made for these times.
- Brian Wilson
Δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν.
Those with power do what their power permits, and the weak can only acquiesce.
- Thucydides