Well, snapped out of the gloom and am going to proceed as required.
Moving will give me further opportunity to regain my independence and not feel beholding to anybody, and am now looking forward.
Have contacted all of the appropriate people necessary for my rehousing and will lodge these over the next couple of days. I'm using a community housing provider and have linked up with a very nice woman who said to me that she is seeing more and more of cases such as mine. Money, it's a gas.
If I had been drinking I would never have been able to do it. So, feeling much more positive and in control, and that feels good.
Ironically I used to be a tenant's advocate in my working life and have housed many, many people. I know how to do the job, and now time to take up my own case. Oh, the irony.