Are you happy with your lot in life?

No. I have a social anxiety/phobia disorder that I have been battling for decades, I'm proud of how well I've done but it is still crippling. I moved to another part of the country to be with a new partner but in that time: I did a degree as a mature student but the economy collapsed while I was studying and there were no jobs when I finished, I had to go back to work in the shop I left to do the degree, only part time instead of full time; I started to get till and ended up with very aggressive auto immune arthritis and Sjogren's, I'm very ill pretty much all the time and can't work or even walk most of the time; my son passed away; my mother had a triple bypass that is failing; I can't afford to go back and visit home and relatives more than once a year; because of my anxiety; I have made no friends in Yorkshire at all in 11 years. I've never owned my own home and can't even hope for the security of a HA house as there are 20,000 people on the waiting list, I'll probably be moving round private rented homes for the rest of my life. I get by OK I suppose, I hardly ever even cry, but I'm just biding my time until I die.

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