Lotte
19-02-09, 23:17
Hi,
My family have persuded me to claim DLA and my GP completed a page in my form for me which was kind of her.
I should have claimed years ago, but I jut didn't want to accept that I would be like this long term. I have been agoraphobic since 1999. I feel like a complete burden on my husband and to make things worse we were abroad for 6 years and I wanted to come home. It took months of planning and encouragement to simply get me back to the UK due to my fear of travel.
Anyway, I completed the DLA form today and posted it after collecting it from the GP's surgery where my GP had filled in a page.
I added my diagnosis and letters from a dutch cardiologist and treatment I was having in the Netherlands fom the mental health team there.
I have DSM1V with co-morbid anxety and depression both at DSMM1V. (To be honest I think I only feel low/depressed due to the severe anxiety I suffer.
I also now have incontinence which at the age of 40 is really embarrassing. This only happens at night time and for the life of me I have no idea why it started? I'd had PTSD for many years and of course sleep badly, but the incontinence is linked somehow to my PTSD the doc reckons.
Anyway, I wondered if anyone else has DLA and at what rate were they given. If they did award me it am I able to use it to pay my daughter in law to help me get out of the house or go shopping and pay bills ect.
Thanks
My family have persuded me to claim DLA and my GP completed a page in my form for me which was kind of her.
I should have claimed years ago, but I jut didn't want to accept that I would be like this long term. I have been agoraphobic since 1999. I feel like a complete burden on my husband and to make things worse we were abroad for 6 years and I wanted to come home. It took months of planning and encouragement to simply get me back to the UK due to my fear of travel.
Anyway, I completed the DLA form today and posted it after collecting it from the GP's surgery where my GP had filled in a page.
I added my diagnosis and letters from a dutch cardiologist and treatment I was having in the Netherlands fom the mental health team there.
I have DSM1V with co-morbid anxety and depression both at DSMM1V. (To be honest I think I only feel low/depressed due to the severe anxiety I suffer.
I also now have incontinence which at the age of 40 is really embarrassing. This only happens at night time and for the life of me I have no idea why it started? I'd had PTSD for many years and of course sleep badly, but the incontinence is linked somehow to my PTSD the doc reckons.
Anyway, I wondered if anyone else has DLA and at what rate were they given. If they did award me it am I able to use it to pay my daughter in law to help me get out of the house or go shopping and pay bills ect.
Thanks