nanny
22-08-07, 15:47
I feel in a really positive mood at the moment, I think I may be getting some help at last. When I had an assessment for my anxiety a couple of years ago at the local mental health centre they said the only thing that would help me was either counselling or CBT but the NHS offered neither so it’s got worse instead of better. I couldn’t afford the £40/£60 per hour that they wanted so just had to try and cope best I could .
Well, what with that and the problem of having to find work to suit my back I’ve got into a rut, can’t be motivated or anything oh I do all my house, I never leave that but as for going out I only go if I have too.
I have decided that I need a life at long last and asked for an appointment with the incapacity advisor at the job centre, I nearly never went, but I am so glad that I did.
They listened to all I had to say, read reports from my incapacity medical assessment and recommended I have counselling or CBT I was just on the verge of saying I couldn’t afford it when the lady said that they have a company that deals with people like me, it’s in the town and charges absolutely nothing!!!
It’s a 13 week course, you see an advisor weekly I think to work out what you can or can’t do coz of any disability or ongoing illness that affects you working like my back, I will also receive counselling or cbt every week and they also send you to gym if you want to go, it is also a confidence course to make you feel better about yourself. J and you can also if you wish do GCSE’s in any subject you like. AND you can find a job for 15 hours a week without losing benefit.
So at the moment I feel that there IS light somewhere at the end of the tunnel. J
I just hope it works for me…………. that’s the pessimist in me again
Lets hope I can change that.
Well, what with that and the problem of having to find work to suit my back I’ve got into a rut, can’t be motivated or anything oh I do all my house, I never leave that but as for going out I only go if I have too.
I have decided that I need a life at long last and asked for an appointment with the incapacity advisor at the job centre, I nearly never went, but I am so glad that I did.
They listened to all I had to say, read reports from my incapacity medical assessment and recommended I have counselling or CBT I was just on the verge of saying I couldn’t afford it when the lady said that they have a company that deals with people like me, it’s in the town and charges absolutely nothing!!!
It’s a 13 week course, you see an advisor weekly I think to work out what you can or can’t do coz of any disability or ongoing illness that affects you working like my back, I will also receive counselling or cbt every week and they also send you to gym if you want to go, it is also a confidence course to make you feel better about yourself. J and you can also if you wish do GCSE’s in any subject you like. AND you can find a job for 15 hours a week without losing benefit.
So at the moment I feel that there IS light somewhere at the end of the tunnel. J
I just hope it works for me…………. that’s the pessimist in me again
Lets hope I can change that.