CBT waiting lists????

[mego sent]

Hi y'all
Just had to have a bit of a rant........
I've been waiting for Cognitive behavioural therapy for 18 months, and have now been told that as I was moved out of my local area. (By the council) I now have to wait a further 18 months on another areas list.!! I'm stumped, cannot afford to get it privately, so wait again. Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone know who could help us with this issue?
Perhaps we can do something.......Anything........ Just stop waiting!!!!!!. argh......

Thanks for listening.

mego.

[zube]

im still waiting to hear back from primary care that ive made the waiting list after 10 months !! fortunately i managed to get the money together to go private. CBT has worked wonders for me it has made me venture to places i havnt been in years through fear. i still am not able to travel far but if i know if i keep doing things at a slow process i will be able to retrain my negative thoughts to more positive ones. I stopped my therapy in January and i jst need to continue to push myself and exposing myself to situations i feel anxious in.  The most difficult thing is to take the first step against the thoughts that are you telling you to be afraid.  I have had no medication and i think CBT is a  really great in trying to conquer phobias. 

As for doing something about the fact people suffering from life crippling anxiety disorders have to wait years for treatment, im not sure what we can do, but i do know its disgusting.

[almacaw]

Have you been offered CCBT?

I am trying to find a resource online which can offer it in a more flexibile way than visiting my local library. I have so far found this website based in Australia called MoodGym. http://www.moodgym.anu.edu.au/ Has anyone else found any others.

Best of luck

Al

[Emma..]

Have a look at www.livinglifetothefull.co.uk, it might be helpful 

[Noisy]

Hi everyone,

I was assessed in October, at St Peter's Place, and told to expect a first appointment in January. The whole system is changing so it's sometimes hard to even find out which department has your details but I'm still waiting.

I guess that there's a bit of a backlog! 

Martin.

[disco-very]

hi folks,

I also waited pretty much 2 years from the original time of asking.....but then there was not much on offer, apparently.  (?)
But, following an episode in October, I was referred for assessment ( my 4th assessment at some agency or other, had been to St Peter's too) at the Community Mental Health & then offered the CBT groups they do there within 2 months of that referral. 
In the meantime, I had gleaned much more about the subject from books, but found it useful for getting up & dressed & out of the house, when I could.

I feel the NHS is in such crisis, overburdened with ill-health, including mental Health, they obviously do not have the capacity.  All this while Brighton is being hyped as a "Healthy City" in the World Health organisation & our Public Health bigging up their successes. Not from my viewpoint!    -I know it breaks the hearts of many proffessionals too & they just do the best they can at the rockface.

Not very positive of me, I'm afraid......
Best of luck to all of you, hope you get some CBT soon.
teep 

[Close]

Waiting is so frustrating. 18 months is a horribly long wait though...

I suppose I am fortunate (at least in this regard) as having only a 2 month wait since my doc referred me until my assessment - and then it will only be another 6 weeks until I start the CBT. I live in Hailsham, just near Eastbourne so I suppose the waiting list is so much shorter here. I've been so frustrated that it's taken this long... given that I am at a point in my life where I so need to be interacting with people... but I didn't realise I've probably been quite lucky to get in so soon?

[Noisy]

......... but I didn't realise I've probably been quite lucky to get in so soon?

Wow, that's really quick!

There is supposed to be more funding being directed towards CBT and it all takes time I suppose. Couple that with Brighton and Hove's restructuring and that probably explains the lengthy wait. 

[disco-very]

hi noisy & all,
-I think (having worked in the PCT for a while) that there are just too many peeps with anxiety /depression /mental health issues in our fair city, (well, in the whole country really) for the very limited services on offer to cope.  I am not criticising what is being offered, even though it is very.....basic, it is still a lifeline for some. Waiting lists as long as we have experienced shows this.   Other waiting lists & health matters are prioritised.  Whilst a heart attack is obviously more urgent, mental health is still in mant ways swept under the carpet.  The "illness" doctors can't see.  blah blah.

Did anyone know this?  I was chatting to a guy from Kenya & they don't have a word for depression nor stress. Just thought I'd throw that in.  Cultural illness?  Or does it just show the pace/ set up of our society has got something fundamentally wrong?  Too much chasing the dollar, not enough merriment/chilling??

take care, y'all,
teep