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Re: Topic Tuesday// NDIS, Disability & Mental Health// Tues 31st January 2023 5:30-7:00PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday// NDIS, Disability & Mental Health// Tues 31st January 2023 5:30-7:00PM
@Wazzlord wrote:Its a bitch interchangeable - essential a mental health issue or mental illness as you have termed it is the diagnosis, e.g. Major Depressive Disorder. The psycho-social disability comes from the impairment of such a diagnosis. The NDIS will be looking at the impairment from the diagnosis when considering assistance.
Yeah, the confusion surrounding these terms often makes me want to swear, too. 😉
So, as I've come to understand, it all hinges on having a "mental health issue"/"mental illness" as the root cause.
This sort of leaves a major gap, doesn't it, for people who need help, but who's problems don't originate in a "mental health problem".
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Re: Topic Tuesday// NDIS, Disability & Mental Health// Tues 31st January 2023 5:30-7:00PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday// NDIS, Disability & Mental Health// Tues 31st January 2023 5:30-7:00PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday// NDIS, Disability & Mental Health// Tues 31st January 2023 5:30-7:00PM
@chibam wrote:
@Wazzlord wrote:Its a bitch interchangeable - essential a mental health issue or mental illness as you have termed it is the diagnosis, e.g. Major Depressive Disorder. The psycho-social disability comes from the impairment of such a diagnosis. The NDIS will be looking at the impairment from the diagnosis when considering assistance.
Yeah, the confusion surrounding these terms often makes me want to swear, too. 😉
So, as I've come to understand, it all hinges on having a "mental health issue"/"mental illness" as the root cause.
This sort of leaves a major gap, doesn't it, for people who need help, but who's problems don't originate in a "mental health problem".
This is where I'm getting caught up too. I take it that diagnosis is a prerequisite?
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Re: Topic Tuesday// NDIS, Disability & Mental Health// Tues 31st January 2023 5:30-7:00PM
Q: Is it true that one needs to be medicated for a MH issue to be considered eligible???
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Re: Topic Tuesday// NDIS, Disability & Mental Health// Tues 31st January 2023 5:30-7:00PM
Hello,
Support coordinators are given once funding is approved based off needs - regardsing access i'd recommend finding a good GP to begin with and working with any specialists that are in the mix.
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31-01-2023 05:59 PM
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Re: Topic Tuesday// NDIS, Disability & Mental Health// Tues 31st January 2023 5:30-7:00PM
Good evening, everyone. no not NDIS just wasn't sure if I was in right place, but I am and happy to be here, tx
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31-01-2023 06:00 PM - edited 31-01-2023 06:01 PM
31-01-2023 06:00 PM - edited 31-01-2023 06:01 PM
Re: Topic Tuesday// NDIS, Disability & Mental Health// Tues 31st January 2023 5:30-7:00PM
@AuDHDpug I am also ASD and ADHD, but I got onto the NDIS initially care of a diagnosis of chronic depression aka psychosocial disability. Which itself is largely internalised stigma - being down on myself about my limitations and persistent failures. I expect lots of people with ASD or ADHD have secondary problems like that.
In the three years I have been on the NDIS funding gave me access to funding for a more appropriate and experienced psychologist, whose assessment tests and reports enabled me to get a faster diagnosis from a psychiatrist when I eventually found one who could take me on for widely spaced telehealth appointments. The added diagnosis got me a little more funding which I have used mostly for a support worker who serves as a peer mentor pushing me to change behaviours and approaches and to maintain changes.
The most satisfying services I used were social enterprises programs that give me access to volunteer work and then potentially transitional employment, that should make me feel more useful and self-efficacious.
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