You are in a tough spot.

I would warn against AI-assisted mental health tools regardless of any advertised claims or promotions. AI is more likely to harm than it is to help for a number of reasons I won't get into here. It can create convincing lies where you are worse off later.

If you want to do better, you will need to start networking with people that can help. There is no power as a lone wolf, members in a community people help each-other.

On a personal level, you need stable working space, and living space. Mental health is tied to stable spaces, isolation and food/shelter security will drive you mad faster than anything else.

You will only be as good as the working space you are currently in allows.

> I drive Lyft/Uber full-time ... without these costs I can't work.

You will need to properly project and evaluate whether this is sustainable. From what I've heard of Uber, I'm guessing it is not.

You shouldn't be doing work and trading time that doesn't move you forward to a better place than you started at. There are predatory companies out there that will suck you dry and spit you out. There is an opportunity cost to being a wage slave.

It sounds like you will need to figure out your expenses, and your average income for 40 hours including breaks at regular intervals (for health).

If you can't make a sustainable profit factoring in seasonality, you can't do that work and must find something else.

You should be including the required tax withholdings for business. Being a contractor must make sense. Net not gross for viability with at least a 20% profit margin for unexpected expense.

I would not recommend Information Sciences to anyone at this stage. It is a pipe dream now. Those that have the experience already can leverage it, but those that don't, now is not the time and it will only get worse from here-on-out without providing marketable skills.

Homesteading/farming might be an option though not one I'd recommend without a background/community that can help you with it.

You should focus on practical skills like handyman type blue-collar trades. Plumbing, HVAC, Pools, Electricians, Welding, Steelwork, or Machining. It doesn't take long to learn, and doesn't require a lot of equipment (much of which you can get second hand very cheaply).

Once you spend roughly 60% of your time doing the work part of whatever you choose (not the management), and bringing in a net profit, you should look at hiring your first hire as a business (without debt). Distributing labor is how we got to our current heights at a technological society.

Most white-collar work will be fully disrupted by AI in the next 2-5 years blocking off the sequential career pipeline by replacing entry-level work in these fields with AI. Business monopoly through integration has made the decision to force a deflationary cycle as we approach the end of market-driven business in 2030 (business stops doing business when profit in purchasing power cannot be made, those tied to money-printing can continue long after business fails).

Soon monopoly will have won so much that they force everyone (including themselves) to lose everything.

1 in 4 people are out of work right now, it will be much worse a few years from now because the economic cycle is reaching its inflection point (zenith) with liquidity drying up fast, followed by economic armageddon in 2030 (stage 3 ponzi; outflows/debt growth exceeds inflows. Kicking the can no longer works and these are the consequences of the last 100 years of economic and monetary policy.

I don't know your location's job market but you will need to go where the jobs are, and those places are shrinking. A local economy that is contracting will leave fewer options unless you are near the bottom level of the producer market.

The situation is not just you, the economy is and has been in the shitter, because of the Fed (boom bust cycle design, and the terminus from it to ECP/SCP chaos economically speaking). Shortages are prominent and sustaining. Famine driven by artificial supply constraint is likely to be next if history is any guide.

You will need to find a community of people who are self-sufficient, and become self-sufficient yourself. Many such communities do not welcome outsiders because most people today do not contribute reciprocally and act parasitically.

Before asking for help you should always offer help in something. This shows you are willing to work, above what lip service gives.

Staying afloat is about having the skills to navigate life in any economy. Producing what you need from little to nothing.

Many people have been robbed of this. The non-hollywood mythology of the American Dream is Self-sufficiency, Faith, Freedom, Independence and No taxation without representation. This is the True American Dream.