Who is waiting for their assessment over here ? Would love to chat with those going through a similar experience.

Hi 

I too am waiting for an assessment.  I'm 52yrs and way too embarrassed and scared to speak to my GP so my husband agreed to pay for a private assessment ...although he doesn't agree with labels and thinks it pointless ...but that's what a lot of people say who have no idea what a struggle this can be!  I've filled an an Early Years Development form as best I can, my Mother died 30yrs ago and my Father is hopeless as remembering my early years and was pretty absent anyway, always being tied up with his business, so I've had to put what I can remember down and things my Aunt has told me.  I've a phone call in a couple of weeks time then I will get to hear the next steps.  

It is such a limbo period and the diet that I had miraculously been sticking to for a few weeks has now gone to pot as I'm comfort/stress eating a lot and am also finding it harder than ever to concentrate and focus on the tasks at hand ...if I could spend my life sat at my kitchen table dithering, I probably would - my husband had to forcibly shove me out the door and make me go up my allotment today !  I feel so awkward and embarrassed to admit all this at my age - it feels shameful, particularly in my case when my husband has health issues with prostate cancer - that kind of compounds the guilt I feel at being hopeless !

Hi 

I too am waiting for an assessment.  I'm 52yrs and way too embarrassed and scared to speak to my GP so my husband agreed to pay for a private assessment ...although he doesn't agree with labels and thinks it pointless ...but that's what a lot of people say who have no idea what a struggle this can be!  I've filled an an Early Years Development form as best I can, my Mother died 30yrs ago and my Father is hopeless as remembering my early years and was pretty absent anyway, always being tied up with his business, so I've had to put what I can remember down and things my Aunt has told me.  I've a phone call in a couple of weeks time then I will get to hear the next steps.  

It is such a limbo period and the diet that I had miraculously been sticking to for a few weeks has now gone to pot as I'm comfort/stress eating a lot and am also finding it harder than ever to concentrate and focus on the tasks at hand ...if I could spend my life sat at my kitchen table dithering, I probably would - my husband had to forcibly shove me out the door and make me go up my allotment today !  I feel so awkward and embarrassed to admit all this at my age - it feels shameful, particularly in my case when my husband has health issues with prostate cancer - that kind of compounds the guilt I feel at being hopeless !