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My credit card debt has recently jumped to over $10,000. That's almost as much as I earn in a year. I dump almost my entire paycheck into it every time I get paid, but I'm still constantly going up. A big portion of this is that I'm a compulsive shopper, and a big part of that is that I go out to eat too often. I know this is primarily my fault. But lately I've been having troubles and issues that have cost more than just a meal... my car needed fixing, I had to pay a citation from the city police, and so on. The compulsive shopping I've got mostly under control, and the compulsive eating out is something I'm working on and getting better about, but the debt is just looming over everything I do. I need help. I can't ask my family for various reasons, including one set of parents not having enough to help and another set of parents already helping with major household bills (including the mortgage). I can't post on Facebook or Twitter because I have almost my entire family friended on