I recently set up my own business on my own account.

I'm finally starting to have clients and potentially a source of income between now and the end of the year. However, I asked my bank for help, telling them that I would need a helping hand while I waited for my first income in September,

The bank categorically refused. Having grown up with a single mother of 6 children, I was never rolling in money, hence my ambition to build a better life for myself.

Except that with my bank's refusal I'm taking the risk of ending up with a bank ban, having to pay them exorbitant fees between now and September because my account is currently almost €3000.00 overdrawn, cards blocked and some bills unpaid of course, I still managed to pay my rent last month and this month before being blocked by the bank, direct debit rejections, on direct debit rejections...

Right now I'm asking for help because I don't want to close my business and have to go back to a salaried life that depresses me more than anything else, even though my business is taking off and I've been trying for 5 years to string together job after job while waiting for the opportunity I've seized to become self-employed....