[AprilPhoenix]

If you have friends, use them. Avoid HR at all costs. Steer the conversations of interviews to your technical interests and current projects and away from your past as much as possible. If a potential employer asks about the high turnover, don’t dismiss it: just make it clear that you WANT a stable job for a good few years, and that you’ve have a hard life that you’d rather not go into details about before immediately shifting back to impressing him about your knowledge on whatever the actual programming work is about. Make sure you have some other aspect of your life that is going forward, even if it just getting in shape, and keep it strictly segregated from the job hunt.

They are hiring the current you, not the past you. If you yourself are utterly convinced of this, you stand more of a chance of convincing others.

I’m in the same situation. It’s rough. Doing this job hunt constantly with no support and no money can wear you down to the point where you can’t even look at applications without feeling sick unless you are careful to make sure that it doesn’t block your mental rebound. I’ve got nothing but sympathy for you. If you ever want support, let me know. Practical help, can’t promise anything given my own desperate situation, but I can try to get you on some old recruiters radars or potentially an employer or two.