I had similar upbringing, mother with similar official conditions, which to me the system imposed on her, so I maybe identify with a lot you are saying here. I had a younger sister who did not survive, she died aged seven, from kidney cancer which again I put down to the system which physically poisons us, though I don't think it does us many favors talking much about it, most sensitive people will, and are reacting the same way as they might to the harsh talk of the gop, for example, the truth hurts, so it is often denied.
The fix, it seems to me, is to fix the system.
Remove the need for everyone to make profit, by a solar powered UBI, and everything is fixed, as far as I can tell.
I even have numerical proof, computed from actual data, that this is what nature is forcing us to do. If we refuse, the whole species is finished.
Whilst people react angrily, especially banks, for example, I don't feel much like anyone can be trusted, to stand together to see it through, but I know it has to happen, or we are done, so I keep rattling the cage.