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Housing

Chimes

Hi everyone, I wrote on here before about housing a while ago but didn't go anywhere with that so writing again.

I'm 29 and have aspergers, ocd, depression and anxiety. I want to live more independently but don't work due to my conditions and get esa and pip benefits. I currently live with my mum who is my carer as well and I know she can't look after me forever but I have know idea where to go about housing but was wondering if I qualify for housing benefits?

I live in Portsmouth if that helps.

Would be great to read more info about how I go about living more independently in my own place.

Parents

  • I'm in a similar situation, with the added frustration of parents who have no respect for basic privacy. I'm not even really allowed to go anywhere, or have friends and such over, not without their permission. I feel like a child instead of an almost 30 year old woman.

    To top it off, my older sister recently had her first child, and since she's been going back to work, our mother takes on childcare and I'm not coping with the big disruption it causes.

    All I really want out of life now is a place of my own that I can feel completely at home in, and have my pets with me. Not sure how to achieve that though, since I'm unemployable, and the disability benefits I am on currently are a bit...tricky, so I'm not sure if I can get housing benefits just yet.

    The longer I stay here for, the worse my anxiety, depression and depersonalisation is getting. Wish there was more active help available regarding this sort of thing. People keep saying to suck it up, but why should we? Why should we be stuck and perpetually treated like children indefinitely? Why should our parents have to be stuck because of it too? No one asked for this.

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  • I'm in a similar situation, with the added frustration of parents who have no respect for basic privacy. I'm not even really allowed to go anywhere, or have friends and such over, not without their permission. I feel like a child instead of an almost 30 year old woman.

    To top it off, my older sister recently had her first child, and since she's been going back to work, our mother takes on childcare and I'm not coping with the big disruption it causes.

    All I really want out of life now is a place of my own that I can feel completely at home in, and have my pets with me. Not sure how to achieve that though, since I'm unemployable, and the disability benefits I am on currently are a bit...tricky, so I'm not sure if I can get housing benefits just yet.

    The longer I stay here for, the worse my anxiety, depression and depersonalisation is getting. Wish there was more active help available regarding this sort of thing. People keep saying to suck it up, but why should we? Why should we be stuck and perpetually treated like children indefinitely? Why should our parents have to be stuck because of it too? No one asked for this.

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