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Why do the professionals bother diagnosing us?

ladynicotine

Can anyone suggest why the "professionals" bother to put us through the assessment process, and give us a diagnosis, when all it comes down to is "you're officially crap with people, you have more problems than you thought & while there's some help available you don't qualify because you're too old", and then cutting us loose with no further help?  Surely they would be better off spending the money & the time with people (children) they actually can help (or are at least prepared to try & help)?

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  • I guess it very much depends on your local council and funding as well as your level of functioning. Where I am, support services are in place and my social worker allocated funding for a support worker.  If you receive PIP, theoretically that payment is meant to be used for such services if additional funding is not allocated.

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  • I guess it very much depends on your local council and funding as well as your level of functioning. Where I am, support services are in place and my social worker allocated funding for a support worker.  If you receive PIP, theoretically that payment is meant to be used for such services if additional funding is not allocated.

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