What a week - the weather has become a lot colder so I’m sitting in the house during the day with loads of layers on and only turning the heating on when the kids return home from school. It’s a sad world that we can’t heat the house when we need to

The weather in Glasgow today is very cold, with snow falling. My baby and I don’t have really warm clothes to wear when going outside.

Thời tiết ở Glasgow hôm nay rất lạnh, có tuyết rơi. Tôi và em bé không có áo thật ấm để mặc khi đi ra ngoài.

Today is freezing cold in Glasgow

Struggling with costs, debt mounting up. And I’m deciding between giving my son a nice Christmas or paying more towards my energy prices

I have been temporarily paralysed - no idea how. I woke up and I couldn’t feel my legs. I’ve been relying on taxis and this is an expense I wasn’t aware I needed to budget for. It’s really worrying as it’s so close to a Christmas.

Had a spell of vertigo last night.

I was sitting watching TV with my daughter and my daughter made a comment . I turned my head to her and the room spun. It's horrible and uncontrollable. I felt nauseous and closed my eyes to make it stop. Soon as I opened them again the spinning continued.

I didn't want to frighten my daughter so I kept quiet.

I slumped down on sofa. Daughter thought I was being rude.

I have GP tomorrow for blood pressure review. I feel stupid as nobody can see these vertigo spells and I'm worried the GP will think I'm a hypochondiac as always something wrong with me... Been previously fobbed off with stress as the reason.

I'm scared to go outside alone again in case I have another spell.

My father’s been diagnosed with terminal cancer, he’s been put back twice for starting treatment due to the lack of beds in hospital.

Hi, I'm not entitled to the winter warmers scheme for the 150 pound so I'm worried I'm going to struggle over Christmas as I have 2 children to provide for. The government need to focus on working parent's as well as I feel like we are forgotten about.

On October 10th I spoke at a world mental health day event in Belfast. I made a connection between poverty and mental health issues and the struggles of being on universal credit which domino’s into our children’s mental health. At the minute universal credit are forcing more and more people back to work who are either not physically or mentally well enough to do so. I am one of these people. On top of that they have through random selection chosen me to provide 4 months worth of bank statements and I find this massively intrusive. I understand they want to know what money is going in but one manager at UC admitted he was looking at the transactions. Well these statements are over summer so of course I’m going to be spending more and my youngest likes eating out because we never go on holiday.

I’m looking forward to Christmas this year. Last year I wasn’t able to put the tree up and that’s the thing my 2 children are excited about the most. I’m not looking forward to the financial aspect of it but I know I’ll make do with whatever I can. My 11 year old wants anything to do with penguins and is so easy to please but for years my daughter has asked for a phone and she’s never had a new one ever but I still can’t make it happen. Her 16th is directly after Christmas and I still can’t make it work as a joint present. She kind of understands but I know she desperately wants to be like her friends. Sigh.

I desperately need new clothes for myself and warm ones at that but my kids come first and there’s school costs, new uniforms as my 11 year old had a huge growth spurt, bus pass top ups etc so I have to put myself last. It would be nice to do something normal that other people do and be in a position to buy my own clothes. I’m wearing summer clothes with a jacket over it but I’m so cold.

I’m dreading a Halloween half term break. I’ve hurt my back and I am struggling physically but I’ve a son who is full on ADHD and is very violent and needs entertained to release his energy. I fear I can’t do much over the break just like summer and it’s horrible. The government should provide low income families with more resources over holidays as it’s just ridiculous we don’t have the money to do anything.