Advice needed regarding Mandatory work experience

Andrea2528

I need some advice regarding mandatory work activity. I've got a very unpleasant personal advisor who is threatening to place me on the MWA. I was on ESA a while as a result of having social anxiety but the people who assessed obviously didn't understand the condition and I was no longer allowed to stay on ESA. I then had to sign on to receive Job Seekers Allowance. Social anxiety makes it very difficult to work alongside other people. I explained this to the Personal advisor and he was trying to show that he understood but the when I next went to sign on, he seemed to have gone back to showing a lack of consideration. I told him that I am not trying to avoid work, I have always wanted to work from home.

I had previously explained to him that I would prefer to do voluntary work in preference to the Mandatory work experience because it might provide an opportunity for someone like me to try out various work environments without feeling the pressure to stay in one place. I told him that this would be the best approach for someone with my social anxiety condition. He seemed to agree with it as long as I started to sort things out. I rang the voluntary organisation in our area, who are trying to find something suitable. I told the personal advisor about this and then his attitude had completely changed from the previous fortnight when he seemed to be happy with me looking for a voluntary position. The first thing he said was that he was going to place me on the MWA. I couldn't believe what he was saying. The previous fortnight he seemed to agree to me doing voluntary work instead. Any advice about what I should do as this is really worrying me and I'm getting really agitated and very depressed about everything?