Thanks for all the replies
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Originally Posted by Waterloo12345
It's dependent on area (the old postcode lottery) but some CCGs will fund about 20 sessions of psychotherapy esp before ECT is mooted. Can you press for that. It is in the NICE guidelines so even if it's not 'normal' in your area you can ask for exceptional funding. But you have to advocate hard which is obvs difficult when you are I'll. Are there any help groups like MIND in your area that would help you advocate?
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Thanks. I'll look into this. My pdoc has basically told me that there are no other treatments available but I will look into contacting MIND to see if they can help
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Originally Posted by Echos Myron redux
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Thanks. I don't think I would qualify as low income though
I work full time and earn a reasonable salary but I also have a mortgage (based on my previous, much better-paid job) and bills etc. which doesn't leave me with much left over.
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Originally Posted by SorryOozit
If you are in a university city, you might find that univerisities offer a counselling unit type service which provides training to counselling students/research clinics alongside accompanying free/low cost therapy to local residents.
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I do live in (well, not far from) a big university city so I will look into that.
I don't know what else is available through the NHS here, so I am going to talk to my GP (who is wonderful) and see if she has any ideas. My pdoc was fairly adamant that there is nothing else they can do for me, but she is also pushing hard for me to accept ECT (which also directly contravenes the NICE guidelines). I suspect that a large part of it is that I don't respond to drugs and the waiting times are much shorter for ECT than for any kind of therapy, let alone anything more specialised than the bog-standard 12 week CBT course.