They make it hard...

Today I lodged the forms for getting Disability Support Pension. I didn't have my interview or anything, and it was still a harrowing, horrible process.

I specifically asked the lady if I could have one of the spare rooms to just be 'alone' from the other people, and these rooms weren't being used, and she said no. I consequently ended up in tears later from the exposure to all the other people and my high sensitivity in those situations.

Ugh.

Seriously, if it wasn't for the fact that I want to move out, I would never apply for disability.

Absolutely nothing about it is in favour of people with mental disabilities.

Put in a letter of complaint! Don't let them get away with it. I know exactly what those offices are like. I've had to get similar payments (just not having to look for work while on new start for 6 months) and though I haven't been through any drama in doing so, just having to turn up was bad enough, especially when I was well under way. I force myself out of the house about 8.30 am just so there wouldn't be too many people when I got there.

Please please write a letter of complaint.

That's infuriating. *HUGS*

You're right. I hate the way (in all countries, apparently) that people with mental disabilities are taken less seriously. Now I wonder if they would have afforded you a seat to sit in had you had one leg and were standing on crutches? I bet they would have. But no...ask for something that they can't 'get' in their tiny ignorant brains that pertains to emotional/mental needs...and you don't get any special treatment.

It's the same at the unemployment offices here. The expressions on their faces usually say it all, anyway.

Love to you Moonvoice, well done on starting the ball rolling.

I hate the way institutions like this treat people with mental issues - they make it ten times harder to achieve even the simplest of things.