Right now, i'm doing all I can to remove as many of my debts as I possibly can, either through disputes (I really have no idea what half the stuff on my report is from) or through paying off the balances (in the cases where I do know I owe the money). Certain debts I didn't feel the need to request validation for, because I knew I owed the money, but then I did also contact the actual companies I owed the money to, not the CA, and paid them off.
But when talking my financial situation over with a nonprofit debt counselling agency, they suggested i file for bankruptcy.