Support for people with Depression

red_devil

i enquired about it the doc said its not available on the NHS and he dosent recommend it. I will follow this thread.

mumslave

CBT is all about breaking the habit of learned thinking, teaching you to retrain your brain to respond to situations and thoughts differently. It can be very effective but you have to put your all into it. I used a lot of CBT techniques with my PND with my first and panic/anxiety issues after my brothers death. I found it to be a lifeline.

Brighton_belle

red_devil wrote: »

i enquired about it the doc said its not available on the NHS and he dosent recommend it. I will follow this thread.

I am staggered a GP "doesn't recommend it" (which I have ionterpreted as "doesrate it as worthhile"). It's the number one form of counselling offered in many GP' surgeries, as it can really show definite results that can be more easily quanitifed for funding purposes.

It is available on the NHS: someone very well known to me was offered it through my GP practice. I huess my practice allocates their own budget and saw it as cost effective.

Good luck AW.

mumslave

The only thing with NHS, is that it can take a long time to get an appointment with CBT, it might be the case that a patient needs it a lot sooner, than say a 3 month wait, which is what it was for me.

red_devil

yep thats what he said? how can i confirm it?

AlwaysWorking

red_devil wrote: »

yep thats what he said? how can i confirm it?

Could you perhaps ring the health board? I will be receiving it through the NHS, although I understand it is not readily available....my counsellor had to go before what she described as a 'panel' who would decide if I was a suitable candidate or not. When she told me I had been 'accepted' it reminded me of when I got my place at uni a long time ago! :rotfl:

I realise from all of your kind posts that this will be challenging, but I am willing to give it my all if there is even a slim glimmer of hope that it'll help. I just want to feel like 'me' again and not spend every second of every day hating my life and feeling like a failure, just because at 32 I'm single, have no children and (after being made redundant last year) no clear career path. I guess I wanted it all and to have (in my eyes) achieved nothing after 32 years on the planet is not something I'm accepting well. Funnily enough before my fiance dumped me I was feeling on top of the world...weird how one person can make you look at your life so differently.

millymoomoo_2

It definately is available on the NHS in this area (Gloucestershire) but having just googled it looks like it might not be in other places:mad: http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Cognitive-Behaviour-Therapy-(CBT).htm

I had CBT via phone contact early last year. What would happen is the support worker would ring me once a week at an arranged time to discuss the work book which was posted to me. I was given 'homework':D To start with I thought it couldn't possibly help. I was severely depressed and had severe anxiety. I couldn't leave the house it was just awful.
Anyway it worked (for me) a treat.

For me it basically worked through all my anxieties giving me different ways to deal with things and changed the way my thoughts processed certain things.

Goodluck with it OP!

red_devil

can you give some tips on here!

especially for silly, intrusive, obsessive thinking.

red_devil

AlwaysWorking wrote: »

Could you perhaps ring the health board? I will be receiving it through the NHS, although I understand it is not readily available....my counsellor had to go before what she described as a 'panel' who would decide if I was a suitable candidate or not. When she told me I had been 'accepted' it reminded me of when I got my place at uni a long time ago! :rotfl:

I realise from all of your kind posts that this will be challenging, but I am willing to give it my all if there is even a slim glimmer of hope that it'll help. I just want to feel like 'me' again and not spend every second of every day hating my life and feeling like a failure, just because at 32 I'm single, have no children and (after being made redundant last year) no clear career path. I guess I wanted it all and to have (in my eyes) achieved nothing after 32 years on the planet is not something I'm accepting well. Funnily enough before my fiance dumped me I was feeling on top of the world...weird how one person can make you look at your life so differently.

when do you start?

millymoomoo_2

Red, have you had a look at the link Errata posted? If you have a look at the bit "Course Overview" it shows basically what was covered in my workbook. I haven't done the online one, it says it's free though. It might be of some help to you.