Any Australians on here experience getting centrelink for anxiety?

[khaled]

I can't work, I can barely leave the house for over an hour without totally freaking out, I can't afford to live anymore, my girlfriend has been supporting me but she can't do that forever. I was wondering if anyone here as gotten it for mental illness and how much bullcrap did centrelink put you through before they gave it to you?

[Chris_B]

Hi Khaled, welcome to the forums and apologies that no-one has responded to your post before now.

Below are some threads other members have started regarding their Centrelink experiences, please have a read through and ask any questions you need to:

Centrelink, looking for work and anxiety

Disability pension/Centrelink

Satisfy Centrelink Disability requirements?

Attitudes towards DSP

Aren't Centrelink supposed to help you?

Centrelink giving me anxiety and doing my brain in

[safehouse_musings]

Hey khaled,
i used to have full blown agoraphobia and i was on an incapacitated work payment from centrelink, basically it was reviewed every three months. i first had to apply for the disability pension (which was reviewed every two years) but even though they said i wouldnt get the disability pension, i had to apply for this first to be put on incapacitated work payment.
I think if you call them up, be as kind and sincere as you can be, they will be willing to help you in some form or another.
Hope this helps bro

chris

[pipsy]

Hi khaled.  With agrophobia, I think Centrelink send you to a Dr of their choosing.  As long as you're totally honest about your problems, Centrelink will support you all the way.  Are you on meds for the agrophobia?  If so, take them with you when you go to the Dr.   Agrophobia is a very real condition, I used to be in a relationship with someone who had it.  I don't know what causes it, I don't know if anyone knows.  Any form of mental illness is acknowledged by Centrelink, once their Dr notifies them of it.  I don't know about their reviewal policies, but I suppose there are so many people rorting the system, they have to be sure.  You may have to see their Dr quite often for reviewal purposes, but this protects you and them.  safehouse_musing is quite right with everything he/she says.  Please don't be afraid to contact Centrelink, they are not that bad, just careful.

Best wishes

Pip.

[geoff]

dear Khaled, all those links that Chris has given you should be able to help you.

With every change of government they stop, ban or introduce new laws when it comes to applying for any centrelink payment,which includes DSP.

Back in '97 I was given a DSP payment for the breakdown which I had, but the breakdown was well before this when I was on a payment, and I can't remember what it was called, and a letter from my doctor and psychologist would have done but this is back then.

Now since the change in several governments the new one wants to change what they believe how it should be, and tightened up their rules on how anyone can get a centrelink payment, so now they want to put people back into work and not receive any centrelink payments, so what happened with me is no longer available, and all you can do is go by the rules they now stipulate. Geoff.