Posted by slinky on June 4, 2003, at 19:31:51
In reply to Re: Here we go -- slinky, posted by kalyb on June 4, 2003, at 13:10:24
> What's the DLA form?
Disability living allowance...I have given up on filling it in --maybe I'll get someone else to do it.
> What area are you in?
Just... literally on the edge of London in the south....just a woman listening and nodding. I can do that myself with my deep thought and inner voice.
Yeh nodding and doing a sneaky gaze at thier watch..you just know it's a waste of time.
> Then I just tried to plod on for years, as you Okayyyyy.......... That's London for you I guess. Too many nutters like me per square mile, and hopelessly underfunded.Heeheee..
> 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.
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> 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.I've been on that verge of homelessness but fortunately found a charity/org that the local council don't tell you about and got a nice flat--but in a crappy area.
> 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!Sometimes we get into that black cloud and feel ungratefull even though we know in other countries people starve and don't get meds etc..doesn't help cause we compare our quality of life with our surroundings.
Efexor worked straight away for me also , like a miricle..I got too high and silly on it:-)I kind of feel therapy wouldn't help me and be a waste of time..but yeh I'm being cynical.
I'm either too up or down..so it's chemical..I don't know..
Anyway..I'm a ramblin.Take care sweets
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