<human>: My 29th birthday is coming up and I feel like a failure in life. 

I got laid off in 2010 and went back to college to finish my degree. Loved being back, but now I am done with my classes. The kicker is that I won't get my degree until May of this year. I am unemployed (looking for work though). I live with my soon to be wife, but she just barely makes enough to cover expenses, despite cutting back on everything. We are on rice and beans (not a bad diet) and so on. 

This morning I found out that one of my three grad school applications  was missing a word from the second sentence of the first paragraph of my statement of purpose. So that was a waste of $75 bucks that could have helped out elsewhere. 

I feel like a drag on the woman I love, like I haven't accomplished anything in my life, oh, and I was recently diagnosed with PTSD from a fucked up childhood in a cult, but since I am not in school anymore I don't get free therapy. 

I am going through the motions, trying to help out around the house, cooking her dinner, applying to dozens of jobs a day (full, contract, and part time ones), and I know that eventually **something** will come through. 

I feel directionless, pursuing a doctorate was/is my career plan, but there are limited programs, even more limited by having to pursue a program that has tuition waivers *and* that pays a stipend. (That's the agreement that my fiancee and I have, she is super supportive, but stressed out)

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<bot>: How do you deal with feeling like a failure? I keep picking myself up after getting knocked down, but I keep getting knocked down in some way or other and it is getting old.