I'm a student too and I get $160 to live on a week. Some weeks (as long as I can afford a doctors appointment) I can manage to get a disability allowance for a limited time, generally 10 weeks or so and that contributes $60 per week towards counselling costs, medical fees, prescriptions etc. I can apply for six free sessions a year, but I didn't know I was able to reapply for it yearly, as that was never made clear previously (I was just told that six sessions was my maximum under that particular scheme).

This year I've been told yes you get the student allowance, then no actually it's cancelled again, (you need to send in more forms, but we don't actually tell you that). So right now everything is from my savings...and as a student struggling to get by, I can't continue like this for long. Life got so out of kilter I was barely managing a few hours of work a week last year. I'm not sure how I'll manage this year.

Sometimes it's so hard to access necessary help.