Here's my summarised situation.
I'd like any advice on how I should proceed now.
Took out a Credit Card with MBNA in 1999
Through their unscrupulous lending,
my own stupidity & intermittent mental health issues,
I ran up a debt that I couldn't pay off
I started to have problems meeting my minimum monthly payments in 2010, and requested a temporary interest freeze when it got really bad
(thought this was 2011, but now realise it was probably 2012... further explanation below)
to help me to sort our my finances.
This request was ignored.
After sever