How are you supposed to get disability benefits/allowance in the UK/Ireland?

[IWantToSleep]

I honestly have no idea how to go about doing this if I needed to, psychiatrists generally don't take me very seriously, maybe it's because I'm not very emotive when I speak, I don't know how I'd even get a diagnosis, they seem to just give you tablets without an actual diagnosis here. Just curious if it's a hard process or not and how long it takes/took for you.

 

[Marktheghost]

Talk to your doctor. That's what I did. It was an easy process; typically, the social security people took months to actually pay me anything though!

 

[signifying nothing]

www.gov.uk/browse/benefits/disability