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Is it wise to leave community health

TopDeckSenior Contributor

Is it wise to leave community health

I have a terrible relationship with my new case manager. The team leader will not change him. She said they prioritise involuntary clients and people on CTO's.

I have been diagnosed with many things. Schizophrenia, bipolar, polysubstance abuse, drug induced psychosis, schizoaffective disorder, seasonal affective disorder, I have been going through different psychiatrist after different psychiatrist and they all have different opinions.

I am on DSP and NDIS. I was in a care home for 2 years. I'm now in community housing.

I need to stay on DSP and NDIS but at the same time community health provides services and things NDIS doesn't. They're relying on me using NDIS because in my case manager's words "NDIS is picking up the slack"

The team leader has told me to go private if I don't agree with what she's doing. I can't afford private.

I don't want anything touchy feely, I don't want to be told "oh that sounds so hard", I just want hard answers. Is it wise to leave community health? If anyone is going to say that's something I should discuss with them or refer me to someone else who will refer me to someone else, please delete this thread. Thank you.

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TopDeckSenior Contributor

Re: Is it wise to leave community health

Made complaints, they didn't care either. Nothing was changed.

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Misty5Senior Contributor

Re: Is it wise to leave community health

I think your NDIS service provider and private psychologist is all you need to keep NDIS trucking along ( while funding lasts). NDIS pay scheduled fee to private psychologist. I'd say run, run as fast as you can ( back to care of gp) unless you have a good consultant.

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Misty5Senior Contributor

Re: Is it wise to leave community health

@outlander I tried to get private psychiatry under NDIS but it only covers psychology. So much potential lost due to side effects of the medical model, HISSSSSS! I thought you just had to be receiving psychological treatment or even just have a diagnosis to get DSP

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outlanderSenior Contributor

Re: Is it wise to leave community health

there are alot of gaps in the system for both public and NDIS @Misty5 it makes it hard when they sometimes contridict each other.
unfortunatley DSP is quite a process these days and they want just as much evidence as ndis to be able to access it.
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