Times are hard. You may be homeless, jobless, or suffering from illness. Financial stress may be causing terrible anxiety. it may seem like your troubles have been around for so long that they'll never end.

Misjudging the realibilty of others, including institutions of church and state, may have left you out in the cold, grappling with an understandable collapse of faith in society. Whoever let you down, now is not the time to try to heal rifts in your relationships or to look for outside assistance. You'll have to draw on your own resources to make it through.