much prefer being in my dark flat.

Glad to be home now. 😊

Then, as for Eldon Square ! 😱
I was panicking.
I went into Typo and one of the sales assistants asked if I was okay and I said no because of the crowds.
Today you obviously had Christmas shoppers PLUS BLack Friday shoppers.

I never used to be bothered with crowds but since COVID and the lockdowns I

have going on.

Despite all of this, the media seems to class everyone on benefits as the same which is wrong. 😡

have a negative impact on my mental health with my routines due to my Autism and my hoarding.

Despite me being on long-term sick, I do volunteering for a couple of places but with volunteering I can pick what hours I do instead of being forced by an employer which would stress me out with what I

another face to face assessment and my claim was extended for another 18 months but the DWP pushed all the reassessments back because of COVID.

In ‪August 2023, after another review, I was placed into the Support Group on ESA as a health care professional thinks if I was forced into work it would

listen to the experts.

I made a claim in April 2018 for ESA and was transferred from JSA straight away.

‪‪I was then assessed in June 2018 as not fit for work and put into the Work Related Activity Group for ESA for 18 months.‬

My 18 month review came in ‪December 2019 where I had to go for

around in shock at my flat with my hoarding and she said that, with my living conditions, I needed to sign off Jobseekers Allowance and go onto Employment and Support Allowance for the sick.

I thought I had tried all my life in jobs but, after my Autism diagnosis the previous year, it was time to

I was finished from the job I was in.

Instead of signing on, I survived off my PIP back payment until around October 2017 when it started running out and I had to sign on to claim Jobseekers Allowance.

In January 2018 a woman came to visit me in my flat to help me with debt issues.

She looked

in September 2015, I had started back at a job I had previously worked in.

In May 2016 I got a diagnosis of Autism with Anxiety.

Despite this I continued in my job.

I got a back payment from 2015 of PIP in July 2017 after the DWP decided to overturn their original decision.

Not long after this

I was finished from as I was too slow picking up the training or my attitude on the phones.

But I always tried.

I took less temp jobs when I moved into my flat as it was a pain with the benefits system signing on then signing off.

Things started to change in 2016.

The previous year,

the show are Ant and Dec and their links.
Then, next year there is a second series of the All Stars series in South Africa.

uncomfortable doing and I don't know how to tackle it as I feel safe with the stuff around me.
It's so complicated, hoarding.
#Hoarding #MentalHealth

make me safe.
#Hoarding #MentalHealth