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Disability Allowance & Depression/Anxiety/Psychosis

  • 12-06-2014 2:22am
    #1
    nirvanabxtch
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭nirvanabxtch


    Hello all! I'm just wondering where I stand with the DA. I've been attending Youthreach for the last year or so, I suffer with depression/anxiety/psychosis, and as of late my anxiety has gotten worse - to the point I cannot bring myself to leave the house. I'm currently an outpatient of a mental health service, attending therapy on a weekly basis and am on medication. I have previously been admitted to a psychiatric ward. My attendance in Youthreach has been awful, I haven't been in at all in the last 2 weeks. I'm on the verge of losing my place now, and if I do, that means no money. Would I be eligible for the DA under my circumstances?
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  • #2
    Koda Plain Stranger
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Koda Plain Stranger


    Definitely. Get together all your medical information from your doctors, specialists, etc. and also write a letter yourself outlining the issues you encounter daily, and send it with your application. This is what they usually come looking for second time around so if you send it all in now, you might have a good chance of being awarded first time.


  • #3
    mrsbyrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    You need lots of evidence and personal evidence from yourself to get D A st 18. I'm so sorry your so unwell.


  • #4
    beyondbelief67
    Registered Users Posts: 550 ✭✭✭beyondbelief67


    Try to get your nurse from the clinic to help you write the note, it is hard to get and you might need to appeal but it is possible to get with depression at a young age, my friends son was granted it on appeal 2 weeks ago with similar illness, but if you do need to appeal try not to get too upset or disheartened and put in the appeal within the 21 days.


  • #5
    nirvanabxtch
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭nirvanabxtch


    Thanks for your replies guys. Do you know how long it takes to process a claim?


  • #6
    beyondbelief67
    Registered Users Posts: 550 ✭✭✭beyondbelief67


    nirvanabxtch wrote: »
    Thanks for your replies guys. Do you know how long it takes to process a claim?
    From what I have been told from different people it can be 8/12 weeks if there's a back log but I think you get arrears to.


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  • #7
    madamab
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭madamab


    I have a similar question to the op's - which is why I came on to have a look! My cousins son has been sufferering with depression certainly knowingly since Christmas. He is 22. He is half living with her and half with my Aunt & Uncle his grandparents. He was born here and lived til the age of 7 so it is his comfortzone. He had worked for a few years when he left school and he did have a moped accident while working and delivering. Pyschiatrist now thinks that this head injury has been there for the last few years and he is now having a post traumatic disorder. So he hasnt been claiming and during the summer got a 20 hour week job with his Mother - but began to feel anxious and unable to commit so has been given leave to go three weeks ago. He has no income , benefit or medical card. Is depending on his Mother for money for docs , travel to Pieta House as its quite a distance and medication as he is on an anti depressant. Having seen him yesterday I found him to look like a stick from not being able to eat, he spoke incessantly which is not like him , he was hardly stopping for breath. Hes definitely not well. I advised him to apply for benefits - He is living between the 2 houses but I know he would be better in my Aunts as her and her husband his grandad are there all day but sometimes he just arrives at 2 in the morning and then he can get out of bed another day at 3am and go wandering. They are up the walls. I think he should apply for DA and further I think my AUnt should be a carer for him at the moment because when he there at least half the time that is what she is . Im trying to advise him and my aunt on the best course of action. He needs some kind of income because if he has to ask him Mother for money for the docs or prescriptions he might not as he feels a burden and then he could suffer even more.

    Thanks so much for any advice - in advance!


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