getting help in the UK is harder than finding unicorn sxxt! (excuse the language) everything is set up so you give up, that way the government/ local council/social services and PCT don't have to spend money. the less they spend the more in the kitty for their bonuses!

SSI is like Disability living allowance or incapacity benefit i'm not too sure which it is most like but it is what Americans get when they can't work due to disability or ill health.

like Leed, i have to write things down to remember them, i have a big calandar in eyeshot of my bed so i can see it every morning, I write things on my arm during the day so when i go upstairs i can transfer them to the calandar, you can't forget as you always notice the writing on you arm when you change for bed!

no matter how hopeless things seem, keep fighting, you like me are in the Uk, your GP should be able to refer you for therapy, it takes time sometimes many months, but keep pushing for it, call your surgery every few days to find out has he referred you, to say you have not heard anything, have they heard anything, when will you be seen, any thing to keep the doc on his toes, the more you pester him the quicker it will happen.
for months i had a note pinned on my bedroom door and one on the fridge reminding me to bug the doctor about some tests i needed doing, persistance pays, most doctors here have a system of: the first time you mention/ask for something they ignore it, the second they talk about it, the third they actually do something about it!

if you want change you will find a way of making it happen eventually, it may take many knock backs and changes of tactic first but eventually you will get there, trust me, it has taken 4 years of fighting to get Adult services to agree to apply for a grant to adapt my home so i can get to a loo but they have now agreed, now i'm fighting to get to the exhisting loo upstairs rather than their proposed scheme which would leave me living downstairs but paying mortgage on a three bed 2 storey house!