Anxiety again - last year bites again

Have been feeling out of sorts the last few days and haven't been able to put my finger on it. This morning though I realised it was anxiety. This morning it was even to the point of feeling weak and short of breath, like last year.

On further reflection I consider that perhaps the HIV discrimination arbitration last week bought back a lot of memories from those terrible times last year. 

Particularly those two really bad panic attacks I had in August when Centrelink told us to seek help from charity while they sorted out our payments. All we had for about three weeks was the rent and nothing else. The credit card had gone over $20,000 (never went back under BTW) and we just had nothing. No help from the dept of Housing, who wanted impossible criteria to be met to even get on the priority housing list. Honestly, after 30 years of hard pysical work on both our parts it felt like the gov had simply abandoned us.

And it all came back to David's work. It was their fault that he went 5 months without income, to the point of them sabotaging David's Centrelink claim and delaying it even longer. All this came up in the discussions with David's work in the conciliation meetings. We were there most of the day from 10am-3pm, so it was very draining mentally.

BTW one thing David's work did admit to, was the general manager getting rid of him the way she did; ie by purposefully not ringing him for shifts at all after the second confrontation, and not even telling him that he wasn't employed there anymore. It took ages to get his nursing competencies months later and Centrelink further delayed any payments to him as the company hadn't even provided David with a separation certificate. This from a large multi-national corporate health care provider.