Support for people with Depression

Tiff_2

Hi miro!
Awww, miro hunnie - that's fantastic news!

Is this the part where I get to say, ''I told you so!'' ?Just kidding hunnie.

Trust Tiffy, I knew you had a strong case and you deserved the help. See, things can go right for you too, sweetheart. I'm so pleased for you angel. Con-cat-ulations and well done you!

Right now then, I was going somewhere to do something...
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

beachbeth

Hello Tiff! :wave:

That picture you posted re naps is my youngest daughter to a tee! She's always asleep!

cozza

Hi i have just found this site
I have been suffering with depression on and off for yrs
but last nov i had a mental breakdown when live wont worth living I think everythink just come to a head coz in aug got made redundant . octob went bankrupt. couldnt get a job so life just took its toll .
since then i been on the sick claiming ESA went for my medical in feb this year got resutls and failed !!

The doctor so i appealed that to failed so no i am going to the tribunral on 7/7 i am fighting this on my own as i cannot seem to find any one to help !! the doct oer that done the medical for esa
put i was dressed smart looked timmid didnt rock back and forth and chatted a lot ? wots that got to do with in side my head ?

My doctor has just signed me off again for another 2 months hes has gave me a letter for the tribunal to say i scored 26 on hes test . my tablets im on i not sure work as one min im ok then may be next day i feel like crying and i dont know why ?
The ESA pee me off coz nearly every time i send a cret in they never pay when its due so i have to phone to see wots going on ?

Which makes me more depressed
I got up to day felt ok then checked my bank and low and behold no money from ESA again i last got money 1 june from them
sorry to rant on but i just need to let off steam as i am so felling down
cozza

shazrobo

Miroslav wrote: »

Medical passed :j

well done miro, :jreally pleased for you

shaz x

shazrobo

hi cozza, and welcome to the thread, i don't know anything about esa, but hopefully someone will advice soon.

big hugs
shaz xxx

beachbeth

cozza, you must get in touch with Citizens Advice Bureau. They will help you with your appeal and tribunal. I myself had my Incapacity Benefit stopped in November last year and I appealed. Because my husband earns a wage the Citizens Advice Bureau couldn't help me themselves but they put me on to Welfare Rights who did help. So there is always someone out there that can help you. Don't fight this alone.

I had my tribunal five weeks ago and they overturned the original decision and Im now getting my IB back and also backdated to when it was stopped in November.

Take a look at www.benefitsandwork.co.uk website. You have to pay £18 to get full access to the site but you can still get information from this site without paying.

They are also at the moment paying £30 for people to send in their ESA medical reports (you can omit your name and details obviously). They are compiling a report on these medicals and need people to send these in. Email them at [EMAIL="info@benefitsandwork.co.uk"]info@benefitsandwork.co.uk[/EMAIL] to let them know you have a report they may be interested in.

Good luck with your appeal - these doctors who do these medicals want shooting! They cause so much stress to people who are genuinely ill.

roxalana

Hi all,

Just wanted to pop in and say I'm not missing and hadn't forgotten you all. Not being keeping up with the thread - hope everyone is ok - I saw Tiff is still looking out for us and that Miro passed his medical - thanks and congrats.

Things have been a little busy here - with good things like organising the beginnings of our wedding (so I have been living on the weddings board for a bit) and not so good - I 'netted so much that I gave myself eyestrain and had to severely cut back!

Starting to struggle abit off the meds but not enough to warrant going back on them. I seem to have reached the end of works tolerence though which isn't good, which also means I am more likely to need to go off sick which is a pain. I have avoided taking time off to stress, depression and anxiety and I don't really want to start now.

I'm hoping it is just a virus making me feel under the weather.

Jo_R_2

I've been spending some time on the Weddings board too Roxalana although not planning on setting a date for probably three years or so yet I reckon!

Hey to all, I've not been in much recently either, I've been around and about but not spending as much time online, especially in the day as I've been making an effort to spend lots of quality time with DD2 (she's 3 soon.) As a result her behaviour is noticeably better, of course as we all know the terrible twos are to be expected but the poor little mite has had such a lot go on that it's no wonder she's been acting up to get attention:eek: So I'm really happy about that and she seems a lot happier too.

We move house next weekend. Plans going well but I'm feeling hugely guilty about DD1 moving school. She's in reception and decided to move her now rather than wait til September, but I feel bad for uprooting her. As everyone tells me, kids are adaptable, and I know they are, but I still feel bad about taking her out and plonking her right in a new school, new class.

She's being quite grown-up about it, she said the other day after we visited her new school that she didn't like it, but that was because she wasn't used to it yet:A I'm sure she'll be fine, the school is really good. I'm dreading the walk every day - it's a mile and a half there, I'm fine with walking but bit worried about DD2 and maybe DD1 if she's tired. Been trying to work out permutations of how we'll get there: baby in sling, DD2 in pushchair and DD1 walking/baby in sling, DD2 and DD1 walking/baby in pram, DD2 on buggyboard and DD1 walking/go on the bus LOL:D Just don't want to spend a fortune on bus fares and be at the mercy of the rush hour traffic out of the city centre!

newlywed

Hi all. Feeling very today again.

Fed up with everything. OH is a grump (think he's got depression but says he isn't sick so won't see a doc or take tablets :rolleyes:).

Sick of having a car now, yet need it as bus fares are more expensive for us. Already paid out for 3 new tyres, a new radiator and water pump earlier in year. Now passenger window doesn't work properly, some git went down the road and smashed wing mirrors - but ours isn't just the glass its the whole unit, and now the engine fan has stopped cutting in so the car overheats unless you put the internal heater blowers on hot

I think it's worse because this is the point where I would go and ask dad what I can do, or whether he can sort it... but he's not here.

On top of that something has been trying to dig up my rose that we planted in a pot just he other week. Earth all over the decking and a huge hole in the pot. It's at the bit of the pot that's against the wall and doesn't seem to have been used as a cat loo but who knows? At first I thought maybe the guttering was leaking and dripping into the pot to make a hole.... but this time half the soil was spread over the decking :mad: It's the first plant we've planted in our little garden so I'm really annoyed that something is trying to wreck it.

Had enough and just want to curl up and sleep and not have anyone as me for anything at all for weeks.

beachbeth

Sorry you are having a bad time at the mo, Newlywed. It can get you down when the car is failing you and to add vandalism to that is so disheartening. We had our dustbin stolen a couple of years ago and added to everything else, it really upset me. Its not so much the dustbin as the fact that someone had done it.

Hang in there and come here to get things off your chest as much as you want. Could you not trade in your car for a newer one? Difficult if money is tight though. Try and set aside some time in the day or week as treat time if you can. Even if its just a long, soapy bath with a good book - it can make you feel better. A box of chocs or a good dvd with a bottle of wine can also do the trick. Don't feel guilty for indulging yourself.