stress and AF

Thank you even knowing there is someone out there listening helps

Hi Andrew I'm so sorry you are having a bad time just know but just knowing that there is someone who would take the time to get back to me even with what is going on in their life does make me feel very grateful. I will check out your suggestion.

I found the mindfullness for dummies set quite good in explaining... the work book, the at work and mindfulness... in terms of local authority support, be very quick in saying and writing the words, i am making a formal complaint reason is all public bodies have to respond to formal complaints, it may help speed up the process of assistance.... if the ysay you cant do that, oh yes you can if they act in denial ask fo the ombudsmand details as with finance by law the yhave to give... often this will help resolve things offer them the chance ot review and you will call back in an hour or two dent wait for their call backs and if they try reasonable length of time to resolve you can say the urgency of the situation menas that there is a short time of allowing to resolve, reasonable is situation dependent. at all times always though keep a smile in your head because if you start shouting  they can claim they are being bullied.........remeber they are also under intolerable pressure to achieve the impossible with no money very few staff (certainly not enough) and they do care about what they do but  they are not able to or allowed to do as much as the ywant or need to do. I know of a local authority that has its adult social care budget 11mill in debt and all it has done is maintain its level of care for the very dependent... you can imagine how staff feel....we and they may well have the view that care needs are paramount, central government can only see or care about the books being balanced

Thank you Andrew - I have got the GP  involved and hopefully after this weekend things will improve - not holding my breath but feeling a bit more hopeful.  In this case the problem is one manager organised something which worked but which was not strictly in their guidelines (I didnt know this) - another manager found out and pulled the plug - no warning no time to get anything else in place and basically told me it wasnt their problem. I have been trying to plug the gap myself but wiith limited success but as I said hopefully the GP has come up with a partial answer - time will tell. Thank you again I will try your suggestion re mindfulness.