The NHS have agreed funding for treatment with Pottergate, the local specialist trauma/dissociation organisation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
It has been a long journey to get here.
But, they have only agreed for an initial four months "to see how I engage" and will require a report from Pottergate predicting how long therapy would need to be. Anybody got a spare piece of string?
So, any suggestions on how I manage myself through four months of therapy, knowing it might get terminated or put on hold for another bureaucratic process? It took 1 4months to get to this decision, and the last three weeks of this have been mystified waiting because they sent the decision only in writing, and only to the person who is no longer in that job.
I've a feeling that there is so much pent up and waiting to get out, it might all explode quite quickly, and then be hard to get back in the box if needed. Although I suppose it is equally possible that I'll withhold everything. I've written often about safety, stabilisation and skills building, and my instinct is to ask to focus on them, but I'm afraid that this might look like failing to engage and holding back.
It has been a long journey to get here.
But, they have only agreed for an initial four months "to see how I engage" and will require a report from Pottergate predicting how long therapy would need to be. Anybody got a spare piece of string?
So, any suggestions on how I manage myself through four months of therapy, knowing it might get terminated or put on hold for another bureaucratic process? It took 1 4months to get to this decision, and the last three weeks of this have been mystified waiting because they sent the decision only in writing, and only to the person who is no longer in that job.
I've a feeling that there is so much pent up and waiting to get out, it might all explode quite quickly, and then be hard to get back in the box if needed. Although I suppose it is equally possible that I'll withhold everything. I've written often about safety, stabilisation and skills building, and my instinct is to ask to focus on them, but I'm afraid that this might look like failing to engage and holding back.