Anxiety ( Read more... )

I've been having rather a high degree of social anxiety lately. I also am having to prioritise dealing with both filling in my DLA form (a stressful, upsetting and tricky thing) and battling the infestation with *laundrylaundrylaundryshowershowershowershaveshaveshave*. I have indicated to several people that I'd like to socialise with them, and ( Read more... )

( What I have been doing lately. Includes somewhat talk of food/calories, but not of dieting in particular. )

I'm going to write about this and talk about me, not talk about me in a hidden way by using the 'general you'. I need to focus and keep it real ( Read more... )

Good stuff: A couple of letters came today, telling me that the DWP are going to give me the full amount I'm entitled to plus £95 they owe me ( Read more... )

Someone in the Department of Work and Pensions (the people that deal with my benefits) cannot understand the difference between week and month. I typically do not earn more than £15 per week (the limit for people on DLA before they start deducting Income Support pound for pound how much I earn: for example, if I earned £17 per week on average I'd ( Read more... )

( Probably boring if you're not me )

( Silly caffeine-based Freedom Pass/National Bus Scheme angst )

I needed to do A, then B, then C. I can't do C if I haven't done A and B. The prospect of having to do A, B and C is so daunting I have failed to do A. This is true with getting my printer fixed, viewing my credit report, and more importantly, renewing my Freedom Pass ( Read more... )

It was actually my Income Support that was playing silly buggers, I didn't figure that out until my last bank credit made it onto the full online statement. Just phoned them up and it turned out that because there had been a change in my entitlement to DLA they needed more information before they could pay me. Ah, what a user-friendly system it is ( Read more... )