Posted by kalyb on June 4, 2003, at 13:10:24
In reply to Redirected: Here we go (in about 6 months' time), posted by Dr. Bob on June 3, 2003, at 23:11:57
Slinky wroted:
> I'm awaiting some psycotherapy in uk..don't know what kind.
> I've also been ill for years..I was offered the help after an assessment..I'm often too depressed or apathetic to care...I gave up asking for help.
> Lately I've been filling in the DLA form and ready to give up on that.
> NHS woes eh :-)
> Wish you luck sweetypie.Ta, mate!
What's the DLA form?
What area are you in? wonder if that makes a difference to how/what they treat you. I first asked about 10 years ago, and all I got given was some counselling from a nurse attached to the GP's practise. Which was useless... just a woman listening and nodding. I can do that myself with my deep thought and inner voice.Then I just tried to plod on for years, as you do... finally got round to asking the doc again about 6 years ago. I got put on prozac and told to fill in that form - you probably know the one, with 80 questions on how you felt over the last 2 weeks. Had an assessment, then they wrote and told me I wasn't "bad" (sick) enough. Okayyyyy.......... That's London for you I guess. Too many nutters like me per square mile, and hopelessly underfunded.
However I was put on a waiting list for some psychotherapy, and I waited 1.5 years. The guy I ended up seeing wasn't a pdoc or even a doc as far I know, just a therapist attached to a charity organisation. I saw him for about a year until one day he said "Oh and by the way, we (the charity) have a cut off point at age 35, and you're 35 now, so goodbye!"
I guess some of my issues were straightened out but not really too well, or too permanently, hence I'm back at square one (and worse than before) just a few years later. But I am down on the South Coast now and facilities do seem to be a little better than they were in the big city.
Still... 6 months wait is a long time. And my life's not too stable, meaning if I move out of the area (which could easily happen as I'm on the verge of being homeless), I'll be sliding down that snake to start all over again, again. Snakes and ladders. And we all have to be so incredibly grateful to the NHS for what we get given, aren't we?!! Bah.
Doesn't do to be so cynical really, I guess! At least I'm on a med that's working... the docs and p-docs down here are listening and actually doing something... on the face of it, I've got further with some kind of successful treatment in the last 7 months than I did in 7 years!
:)
Kalyb xx
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