#ndis psychologist

[positivewellbeingpsychology]

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[roshandgadewdf]

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[ndisenableus]

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[iamsunyee]

Research Participants Recruitment _ Mental Health Workers

Hi everyone!

I am a mental health researcher at the University of Sydney. We invite you to be part of a research study to help us evaluate a set of online resources to help mental health workers to support voice-hearers using an evidence-based voice hearing approach. The resources were co-designed by voice hearers and clinical experts.

You are eligible if you are a mental health worker (e.g., clinician, support worker peer worker, psychiatrist) who works with voice-hearers.

For more information or to volunteer for the study:

Contact Dr Anne Honey at anne.honey@sydney.edu.au

Read the Participant Information Statement available at the link below or the QR code https://t.ly/eiDgc

[makingmilestonessa]

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[not-poignant]

so earlier this year a psychologist i'd never met before gave me an autism assessment, diagnosed me with level 2 autism (talking at length about how the levels are mostly just useful for accessing government support) and then strongly advised me to access a national disability insurance scheme (known as NDIS) in australia.

she sent me a 20 page document, detailing all the ways i needed support, and i kind of sat back and cried a little, because something she said really stuck with me, which was basically: 'pia, you would always have been diagnosed with ASD at any age, you were never 'atypical' in presentation, people knew before you were verbal and then went out of their way to make sure you never had the chance to get diagnosed, in case it reflected poorly on them, due to their own stigma.'

it's true. my dad was diagnosed with autism and hid it from me. from all of us. he was the most strongly opposed to any behaviour in me that was not neurotypical, or his version of it, which frankly was still pretty fucking autistic. i lived with his abuse until he left us.

but i look back and think, i should've had an education assistant in school and at university. i should've had people around me helping me all along, if i wanted as much access to equality as most neurotypical people have. and now in early october, i'll be meeting with a support service and we'll start talking about the support staff i'll likely need for the rest of my life.

a lifetime of chronic illness and constant burnout (both from illness and from autistic burnout) was recontextualised. a lot of things about the way i live my life made sense.

but it's scary to have these sorts of meetings when you've spent your entire life being threatened with severe consequences if you behave certain ways, or ask for help.

i write the stories i write for rather obvious reasons, basically, and life has been unafraid of making 2024 a rather challenging year.

not just for me, i know, but for many of us.

i'm wishing you all some comfort and kindness, and hoping i can find a bit more myself, in the next few months.

shit's been hard lol

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

My gf and I took a little trip recently, our first proper Couples Trip. I see a lot of people online talk about how fights are common on them and stuff. So I was pretty stressed about that (no fights yay )

But it REALLY highlighted to both myself and my gf just how unwell I am and how debilitating my mental illnesses are. Like I started going 200 % on so many of them.

I even got some contamination ocd and washed my hands for like a solid 15 minutes. Which never happens for me, that’s not typically how my compulsions manifest.

I had so many moments of feelings disregulated and overwhelmed and just shutting down.

When I’m home and in my routine of seeing psychologists, seeing support workers etc , going on the same public transport I’m used to only when I have to or utilising my ndis services to drive me places I think it’s easy for me to fall into these headspaces of feeling like I’m lazy, not really mentally ill, just not trying hard enough etc.

But that trip really highlighted to me I’m very very ill and actually can’t do a lot of the things I think I can.

It was both comforting and really depressing. I felt comforted in knowing I’m not lying and that I do need the help I have. But also sad that it’s this bad.

[comorbidityqueen]

Over a year and a half ago i was lucky enough to be part of an upper spasticity trial to have 5 weeks of intense hand therapy every weekday for 2-3 hours a day. it helped my arm, shoulder, and wrist. I saw immense improvements and actually had the best ever results recorded from the study at that time.

I think back and think to myself "it didn't work". I couldn't move my fingers by the end, and what is wrong with me. I had feelings of shame, guilt and hated myself for trying so hard and not getting the results i wanted.

I had my physiotherapist tell me recently that the problem wasn't in the joint, limb, ect itself, it was in my brain. Not long after that session I had my new psychologist tell me that my brain injury was a trauma in itself. two things i couldn't wrap my head around, because i thought the problem was with me and i just wasn't trying hard enough over the last 18 years to erase this huge part of me that i hated about myself.

Internalised ableism is something that has defined much of my life, and i didn't cause it, i was taught it. Ableism is defined as discrimination against disabled people and/or having a favour for able-bodied people. Internalised ableism is when you're disabled and have that belief about yourself. A short time after my stroke i went back to school a few days a week in a wheelchair where i was relentless bullied for being disabled. This was also a pivotal point in my life when self worth was being developed at the start of adolescence. It was taken away from me because i had the chance to form it like others my age. I was taught to hate myself and struggled coming to terms with what had happened to me, and i still do. I still whole heartedly believe that im living proof bullying can kill you; because it almost did. I spent over a decade of my life struggling with self harm, substance abuse and countless suicide attempts after that trauma, and now in recovery from drugs and alcohol, i can understand just how much that time of my life impacted me.

It's believed that damage to the basal ganglia in stroke victims can be reversed with neuroplascisity (rewiring your brain), yet i have to come to terms with the fact that wasn't a reality for me to a full extent. I am grateful to be able to walk without assistance (although my spatial awareness and coordination is poor), i can talk (with some disordered speech when fatigued and chronic dysphagia), and have somehow perfect vision aside from occasional nystagmus. I have dystonia, spascisity and high tone in my left arm/hand, and despite working endlessly hard on it, remains rigid and paralysed. I have myoclonic seizures on a daily basis and struggle to do some daily tasks, i do everything on my own yet do them slowly. I am very grateful to have a supportive family who cook for me, and ndis services to access the community. I am grateful for the progress i have made and one day hope to understand why this happened to me much like others with lifelong disabilities. After decades of being on pharmaceuticals i am so grateful to be living a holistic life full of amazing natural remedies that help me. This includes castor oil, magnesium oil, a clean diet and of course physiotherapy stretches and exercise.

I know like anyone that has suffered significant trauma in their lives, forging meaning and identity can be hard. Despite every obstacle i have come across in life i still work hard on my daily mobility. I hope one day to show others living with brain injuries and trauma that they too can have meaningful, impactful lives.

[im-traumatised]

How do you sleep when theirs so much stupid shit needing to be addressed?

The anniversary of my abusive father's death is in less then a week followed by fathers day a weekish later.

My landlord wants to increase my rent so much I can't afford it but I also don't have the money or phsyical capability to move so I've about 2 weeks till my lease ends to decide wtf to do or go homeless... Again...

I've been denied ndis, which is an important disability support, for the 4th time and applying again could now take months.

I have no psychologist or support worker.

I have my sister waiting for me to reply to her about some will bullshit where she's acting shady.

All my mental illnesses are acting up like crazy, I haven't left my apartment on my own in over a month again, I hate my body. I want to relapse on everything.

I'm so utterly self loathing about my sexuality and I can't make peace with it that it makes the future look hopeless.

... Lmfao

I have not slept for well over 24 hours...

[megpie71]

In Australia most of these are covered by various government schemes, although often it’s for certain groups of people.

Glasses, you need to have a health care card (which means you’re either on government benefits or on a provably low income) and what it means it you’ll get single vision lenses in cut-price frames for a lower cost than usual.

Hearing aids - again, you need to have a health care card, but you can get a hearing aid fitted and prescribed for free.  The batteries, however, are not covered by government subsidy, and they’re expensive little whatsits.

Mobility aids - Need to be on the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) if you’re under 65; if you’re over 65, I think the Aged Care system will help subsidise it.

AAC devices - again, NDIS if you’re under 65.  Don’t know whether they’re available to people over 65 or not.

Prescription medications - this is where the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Safety Net comes into play.  For all Australian citizens (or all people who have a Medicare card number - same effective difference), once you have paid a certain amount for PBS-registered prescription medications (which are already subsidised by the government) in the course of a calendar year, the price paid for each prescription drops to a much lower rate, and once you pass a second threshold, the price drops again (to nothing).  For people who are on a low income (health care card, again) they get the lower price to start with, and when they reach the first threshold, their prescription cost drops to zero.  (The trick with this one is that it runs by household - so everyone in the household needs to be listed on the same overall Medicare card number, but with different individual identifiers). 

Therapy - mostly if you need a lot of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, dietician assistance, etc, you need to be either paying for private health insurance ancillary health cover, or you need to be on the NDIS if you’re under 65, or registered with the Aged Care system if you’re over 65.  The NDIS will tend to fund a certain level of therapy hours with each plan, and often they’ll specify how many of which hours you’re allowed to spend their money on (for example, my plan for autism includes a lot of psychology hours, but not much PT or OT).  If you’re needing mental health care, it is possible to get a Mental Health Plan, which will allow you a grand total of 10 psychologist visits at the Medicare bulk billing rate (if you can find a psychologist who firstly, bulk bills, and secondly, has the capacity to take on new clients) per year.  This is basically a maintenance schedule - you hopefully won’t get any worse than when you started, but you certainly won’t be getting any better. 

Things that should be 100% covered by the government, period:

Glasses

Hearing aids

Mobility aids

AAC devices

Prescription medications

Literally all forms of therapy

[progressdisability]

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NDIS daily living is a funding sub-category under Core Supports. Its purpose is to help participants with everyday personal activities in their homes and communities. You can shuffle funds between your Improved Daily Living and Capacity Building budgets, which gives you more flexibility as your needs change.

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[katherinemathew]

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[sheepieautism]

​trigger warning: mention of abuse below (nothing specific)

yes. i had to advocate for my diagnosis at the age of 12. at the same time, i was facing the ramifications of reporting my parents for (ongoing) physical abuse. when i expressed that i wanted to get diagnosed they laughed at me but took me to a gp all the while expressing how ridiculous it seemed to them that one of their children could have a neurodevelopmental disorder.

my dad is a doctor by the way.

when the gp agreed and put me on a waiting list to get diagnosed (we’re in australia and for children it’s free at your local public hospital at least at the time), my parents were shocked and started refusing to see her and changed gps soon after. then when the psychologist agreed that an assessment would be good and i finally got diagnosed at 13 thanks to my own presentation and the reports of my teachers, my parents disregarded the advice to apply for NDIS (our national disability insurance scheme) and hid from me for years the diagnosed severity of my autism. i was also persuaded by my parents to stop seeing the psychologist and not get any support in school. this led to a mental health breakdown in year 10, when i was 15. i am still recovering from this, and this isn’t even considered an early diagnosis. i am not privileged for getting a diagnosis saltier. the only thing it saved me was 2000aud for getting diagnosed later in life. it hasn’t helped otherwise.

A lot of people in the autistic and disabled community seems to think early diagnosis is privilege.

I was not privileged when i got diagnosed in an abusive psych ward just to get my needs denied because i needed to "be more autonom".

I was not privileged when my mother/carer said horrible things to me because of my autism diagnosis.

I was not privileged every time allistic people used my disability to make me suffer, i was not privileged everytime i was neglected despite officially needing a carer.

All the early diagnosed autistics who were abused, or even literally died because of ableism and abusive carers were not privileged.

Early diagnosis isn't a privilege, many early diagnosed autistics are also HrSN, and that makes them not privileged at all.

Diagnosis isn't a privilege.

What is a privilege :

- having access to good/safe care and support

- having access to good/safe therapy

- having understanding and safe carers or family

And a lot of early diagnosed people do not have all these privileges.

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[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

I’m so stressed and worried about my brother’s education and what’s going to happen. The school has already booked a meeting with my mum to talk about his low attendance.

I know part of it has to do with his anxiety and autism but also he just genuinely hates going to school. He’s not being bullied and he has friends he really enjoys. He would just rather not be there. He wants to do things he is interested in and he thinks all the teachers are stupid.

I want to help but he doesn’t seem very receptive to it. I keep telling my mum we need to get him back into therapy because it might be able to help with him finding strategies to deal with this. But she just gets angry when I bring it up because she says she can’t take him (since her MS has gotten to the point where she can’t drive ) and I’m like I’ll take him I don’t care. I can use a driving service via my NDIS plan or I can take the bus.

But he is also extremely stubborn and angry at times when asked to do things he doesn’t want to so he probably wouldn’t even go half the time. I’m just at such a massive loss.

He would be able to drop out of school next year if he got a trade but he isn’t interested in that either.

I’m so sure this is a manifestation of his mental health which is also why I want him in therapy because if he can’t go to school or work because of his mental state he needs to go on the DSP so he isn’t without any financial means. But I’m on the dsp and I got it young. And I know I was able to get it young because I consistent record of seeing psychologists - otherwise it’s rather hard for young people to get the DSP. If that’s going to be an option for him he needs to go back into therapy - it’ll either help him get the recourses and strategies he needs to cope with this or give him the foundation he needs to get extra help in the near future.

I’m just at a loss. I genuinely don’t know what to do. I feel so helpless as his big sister because he just doesn’t seem very receptive to my help. He comes to me a lot for emotional help when he wants ti talk about his feelings or what’s happening, but when it comes to this stuff he tends to not listen to anyone.

I’m scared for his future. I’m scared for his well being. I’m angry at myself that I’m limited in what I can do. I want him to be well and happy for whatever that looks like for him, but at the moment it seems like there is no direction and I don’t know what to do.