esa for mental health

sick_puppy

darlyd wrote: »

I have BP and I work. I do claim DLA but never once tried for IB never mind ESA always feared I would get declined. I don't see things, but I feel their presence, and I am paranoid to fork..

You need a med review sweety, when I was on the wrong meds that guy from scream was stabbing me every night... I had to stay with my parents.

I've just been changed but am down, need to wait to go up to see if it helps with the ups. nothing stops the downs, just sort of takes the edge off it.

My dog is the best thing I ever got. I know it's not real when she doesn't react, I hold her in my arms and she snuzzles me and we ride it out together. I can't go anywhere without my dog. She doesn't get enough walks when I can't leave the house, but we're doing better at going out in the middle of the night with a torch across the fields when there is no-one around. My dog weighs almost as much as me and is fiercely protective so I don't have any fear of being in a field in the middle of the night. Such a change from before I had her, I was pretty much housebound. Obviously the darkness shifts too much when I'm manic to go out in the middle of the night!

My cat used to help (before I had my doggie), he'd let me know it was all in my head by pawing at me and rubbing his face against my cheek, licking my tears. Do you have a cat?

sick_puppy

darlyd wrote: »

I still suffer, and fear for myself often when going to work, I been off for 6 weeks for another reason, but I am scared poopless going back, but I need to work as I won't have no money, my DLA is used for my car, If i knew I could get ESA I would claim for it, but I am in a new area, and gp's don't really know me here, so doubt they could help me much... My old GP was amazing and with my psych managed to get me DLA..

The question is, how would you cope at home with nothing to do all the time? Would it make you worse or better? How unbearable is work? Are you having suicidal thoughts?

I lost my best friend to suicide last new years day. Being left behind alone is torture but I can never put that look on my mummys face that was on his momma that day at the funeral. holding her hand, she telling me how much her son loved me.

You need to speak to your GP more. I got signed off for being a drunk. Judge me all you like, but it was my coping mechanism, it was before I got diagnosed and was self medicating. There is a limit to which each of us can go to before we break. Don't get to the point you break.