u/Dangerous-Delay-8579

I have a physical evaluation coming up for my Benefit claim and i would love to know any experience people have had that have done the same so i can mentally prepare !
it’s a capability for work evaluation and my conditions are chronic fatigue, widespread pain, OCD and AuDHD.
thank you ! x

not to sound like a big loser but ive been losing my mind trying to find somewhere, if anyone knows of a service that can give you a hand in looking i would mega appriciate. i do have auDHD so feeling overwhelmed = being useless </3 hence needing a helping hand

i take 2x promethazine 25mg to sleep and if i stay up for longer than an hour on it i get the weirdest feeling at the very base of my back/ coxsix (?) that’s almost an uncomfortableness in my bones ??? or my nerves being weird ? and i need to squirm or feel like i need to break my bones. i’ve searched high and low for an answer aswell as asking my doctor but can’t find out what it is and it makes me feel so insane that i end up not sleeping. if anyone has any ideas please let me know i feel like im going mad.

not sure if this fit here or dermatillomania more but i thought id post here as there’s more members!
i’ve been picking scabs off my scalp for a bit longer than a year, i had before but only in one spot and i now have about 5 that i pick every day. its at the point that i have bald spots and some is regrowing but i literally cannot stop.
i have auDHD and OCD and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if its a stim/compulsion. i can’t for the life of me find something that satisfies the feeling of picking them off and i hate it. i literally do it in group settings and all and im so aware of how horrid it is :(
i’m medicated and actually at quite a decently stable point in my life but i worry its filling and old SH shaped hole :/ any advice at all is greatly appreciated as i hate this part of myself so much and want to be done with it !!

i have felt nauseous for at least a week and a half now, i started taking it about 2 weeks ago. had a review and doctor said all normal but im so so over it.
first thing i feel waking up is motion sick even tho im not moving and then it just comes and goes all day, and the heat is not helping whatsoever and i just want to cry :((( i hate being hot and i hate feeling sick HELP 💔💔💔💔

Adopted from birth out of texas into the UK, i’ve spent the last 7ish years following what seems like dead ends since i did a dna test and yesterday i somewhat finally did it.
i had found her current address in maybe not the most ethical way (american public records ext) and managed to get a hold of the woman who owns the trailer park she lives in. she said that she’s actually friends with her (my mum) and that she’d pass on my message and pictures of proof (adoptive mother and her holding me) and i’m petrified. so many years of built up emotions just pouring out at the moment it’s quite intense.
i completely understand that she might, quite likely, not want all that much to do with me which honestly doesn’t bother me- i’ve spent my whole life not knowing her so much won’t change. i just really want to be able to have some questions answered :(
any advice or lived experience is much appreciated thank you for reading it means the world, truly ❤️

Welsh viewer but cannot help notice the VERY welsh name she has, Newport being her surname made me giggle. But her daughter being named Gwen rly made me wonder if there’s any welsh connection that we know of? if not it’s still so weird seeing a name i’ve never seen outside of my town !!!

ive been prescribed 50mg to take at night since last november and its helped massively but its begun to lose it affectivenes, sleep is quite literally impossible without medical intervention for me and i was concerned about longterm use, especially from what ive gathered is a high dose? but my doctor reassured me on its safety. im in the UK and around 5'7 and 54kg for context, i also take adhd medication along with an ssri that def add to the issue. the idea of not sleeping terrifies me and already in the evenings im getting antsy around bedtime because i dont feel the medication working :(

curious to know how others have dealt with this if you've had a similar problem, thank you! xx

don’t need a class but curious if there are any workshop spaces that have a kiln ext that are available to use !

i know i definitely always assume the worst when it comes to my health (headache is a tumour ext) but how do i know when to actually trust myself on a hunch and go to the gp ?
recently been experiencing personality changes and a decline in motor function, is it the ocd freaking & i should just ignore and move on is it a good idea to book an apt?
not sure which is more productive as i rly don’t want to feed the ocd monster but am also genuinely concerned
sorry if this is reassurance seeking am not too sure if it is !

weird one but my special interest is gorl world (dont ask) and it’s been making me think about my own eating habits recently.
i’m currently 5’7 and 54kg and have never been more than 62kg, that being said i put bullshit food away like it’s nobody’s business and always have.
as a kid parents were very strict about sugar but as soon as i could make my own food choices that was IT, daily i will eat so much crap & have this insatiable hunger. i think it’s bingeing in the evenings as i’m completely full but still for some reason eating. i struggled in the past with restricted eating and throwing up but it never crossed my mind that i was also binge eating.
my housemate and i have joked about me having prader-willi syndrome but at this point i’m starting to get suspicious.
i’ve recently had to come off my elvanse and noticed a massive uptick in my appetite naturally- but i’ve realised it’s just how i ate before medication (it weirdly made me only want greens ext)
if anyone else has experienced similar let me know thank you ! x