A new home for me and my cats.
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Hey there.. this really is the most degrading thing I have ever had to do.. but it has finally become my only option.
I recently lost my home and my job.. I have suffered from depression since 2009 and during that time I have been unemployed and signed off sick with depression and anxiety until I finally tried my best to become part of society and started voluntary work.
I did voluntary work for nearly two years and that helped me a lot.. but while working for free, I lost my two cats, Jack and Thomas.. they were like my babies but unfortunately at age 18 they finally succumbed to old age and Jack ran away to die while Thomas, being an indoor cat, died in my arms. To give me some perspective and a sense or the real world, my dad got me a stray cat who turned out to be pregnant.. she had 7 kittens but one was still born and the other six were born in a tightly wrapped ball of umbilical chord.. so I had to cut them apart.. In the morning two of them were dead.. and I asked if I could have time off to make sure the others were ok.. but I was given an ultimatum of come to work or don't bother to ever come back. I went to work with four kittens left... When I got home, there were two kittens still feeding and one that had died and another that had somehow managed to crawl under my settee. I tried my best to try and revive it and put it to its mothers nipple but it died in my hand.
I lost my home because I couldn't afford to pay the rent on my flat.. then I had to have days off without notice to try to secure somewhere to live.. unfortunately I lost my job because of this and now I am living in a dirty room with only a bed and a sink in it while all the other rooms are occupied by drug addicts and alcoholics so I really don't feel safe.
My doctor signed me off sick and put me on antidepressants again because she could see I wasn't coping and really wasn't fit to start looking for work again.
My Father has kindly agreed to take care of my cats while I sort myself out and get a job and somewhere suitable to live where my cats can come and stay with me.
I have been without any income for two months now due to the fact that I was claiming esa for depression before I started full time employment, and I missed a medical because I was told to come to work.
Now I am waiting for my doctor to notify the medical assessment team of my condition so that they can decide if I am suitably unfit for work for them to allow me to have esa payments.
If this works and I can get my own place for me and my cats then I will be eternally grateful.. I can not express how demeaning this is and how pathetic I must seem to even attempt to get help like this but I have really lost hope after being told no! to any kind of financial help constantly, when I already suffer with depression, to the extent that my doctor sees it fit to medicate me.
Please don't hate me for asking this.. and good karma to anyone out there with the heart to help. x
I recently lost my home and my job.. I have suffered from depression since 2009 and during that time I have been unemployed and signed off sick with depression and anxiety until I finally tried my best to become part of society and started voluntary work.
I did voluntary work for nearly two years and that helped me a lot.. but while working for free, I lost my two cats, Jack and Thomas.. they were like my babies but unfortunately at age 18 they finally succumbed to old age and Jack ran away to die while Thomas, being an indoor cat, died in my arms. To give me some perspective and a sense or the real world, my dad got me a stray cat who turned out to be pregnant.. she had 7 kittens but one was still born and the other six were born in a tightly wrapped ball of umbilical chord.. so I had to cut them apart.. In the morning two of them were dead.. and I asked if I could have time off to make sure the others were ok.. but I was given an ultimatum of come to work or don't bother to ever come back. I went to work with four kittens left... When I got home, there were two kittens still feeding and one that had died and another that had somehow managed to crawl under my settee. I tried my best to try and revive it and put it to its mothers nipple but it died in my hand.
I lost my home because I couldn't afford to pay the rent on my flat.. then I had to have days off without notice to try to secure somewhere to live.. unfortunately I lost my job because of this and now I am living in a dirty room with only a bed and a sink in it while all the other rooms are occupied by drug addicts and alcoholics so I really don't feel safe.
My doctor signed me off sick and put me on antidepressants again because she could see I wasn't coping and really wasn't fit to start looking for work again.
My Father has kindly agreed to take care of my cats while I sort myself out and get a job and somewhere suitable to live where my cats can come and stay with me.
I have been without any income for two months now due to the fact that I was claiming esa for depression before I started full time employment, and I missed a medical because I was told to come to work.
Now I am waiting for my doctor to notify the medical assessment team of my condition so that they can decide if I am suitably unfit for work for them to allow me to have esa payments.
If this works and I can get my own place for me and my cats then I will be eternally grateful.. I can not express how demeaning this is and how pathetic I must seem to even attempt to get help like this but I have really lost hope after being told no! to any kind of financial help constantly, when I already suffer with depression, to the extent that my doctor sees it fit to medicate me.
Please don't hate me for asking this.. and good karma to anyone out there with the heart to help. x
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Paul Mead
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