In debt because of depression and poor decsions.

Hello, I decided to resort to this website after getting my self into debt and struggling to pay it off, I was never intending to get into debt as I would always pay off my bills on time in full, however over the years that changed. As I became depressed for a while and started spending to keep my mind off my depression. it didn’t start this bad but I got diagnosed with Ulcerative colitis when i was 17 and went through lots of treatments that never seemed to work. I was still fine at this point as but when i was 19 i opted for surgery for my large intestine to get remove and get a  j pouch created. This did help a lot as I was no longer having 20+ bowel movements a day and I felt better and I still do but as time went on lets say about 2 years the doctors started to see some inflammation in my small intestine and had to start taking medicine which was helping but i still had inflammation which sucked but that’s life I guess my depression got even worse when I Got diagnosed with a liver disease called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis or psc for short and i started reading about that and looked up life expectancy which is when is when I got depressed but never showed it this is when it really started to fall apart had to keep fixing my car by using credit cards then started buying things when I know I shouldn’t have because my life just seemed like it was going down hill more and more and it would get my mind off things but now I am now in debt and working to pay it off and i regret it deeply. However one good thing came out of this was I learned to stopped burying my depression inside and talk about it which made me feel so much better and now I just want to get debt free I owe over 20k however I would just like 7-8k just to pay off loans and I will be able to use money from my job to slowly pay off my credit card debt instead of paying minimum payments and getting charged lots of interest.