I guess this is just a rant because I don’t have a single friend or anyone to talk to in real life. I thought once I won my benefit appeal I’d be OK but I still haven’t received my backpay and when I inquired they said first someone from the DWP actually has to start the process of initiating the backpay and then it can take up to another 6 weeks to receive it. There’s no sign it has even been initiated yet.

On top of this I’ve just been screamed at by my landlady and I find it so hard to deal with confrontation and people being horrible to me, I really feel like just bursting into tears right now. Basically she’s been letting me live here without paying rent all this time on the understanding I’d pay her back when I got my backpay, plus interest. The interest is because she’s had to put many expenses on her credit card because she hasn’t had my rent coming in. She needs a lodger to help pay the bills, so without her lodger, me, paying rent, she simply couldn’t afford the bills and they’ve been going on a credit card.

The credit card racks up interest and it’s my fault because I haven’t been paying rent so of course I need to pay off the interest too, which I agree to. On top of this my own overdraft has been maxxed out beyond it’s limit (so into an unarranged overdraft) for a long time, racking up interest charges too. This means my backpay, whenever it arrives, won’t be enough to pay off all my debt because I have all these interest charges too, and it’s a lot. Even after using all my backpay on debt I’ll still be thousands of pounds in debt.

Well I had thought I’d pay off my overdraft but when I mentioned all this to my landlady today she became furious and said I have to pay her first before paying my own overdraft. I realise she’s right but she was so awful about it, she unleashed all of her pent up frustration and anger about this ongoing situation on me by screaming in my face for like 20 minutes and not letting me a get a word in edgeways.

So my financial situation is still impossible, and this month I simply haven’t got enough donations of food vouchers to see me through. On top of this my landlady’s daughter has just had a major operation and is meant to be coming out of hospital very soon, maybe tomorrow, and my landlady is going to stay with her, maybe for weeks, to care for her and her kids. I’ll be home alone with no-one to help me. Because of my disabilities I can’t walk very far, the nearest bus stop is nearly a mile away, and I have many upcoming medical appointments. I don’t qualify for the St John ambulance transport (you have to be either bedridden or on oxygen to qualify) and you have to pay for hospital transport. The only way to get to these appointments would be by taxi, or cancel the appointments. On top of all this with no-one to drive me I will have to order groceries delivered which is even more expensive. I just don’t know how to manage, it’s always too much to cope with and nothing ever gets better.