Thankyou Lyn,
Regular GP on three weeks much needed holiday, CPN strikes me as qualified but remarkably inexperienced, Consultant invisible and no SW that I'm aware of. Just waiting for GP to come back...
I recently had a Carers Assessment, and bizarrely I thought, I was told I could, by application, probably be funded to have a treat just for my benefit. ( An agency was carrying out Carers assessments for the Local Authority, don't know if she could be called a Social Worker)
But what I need is a break from the hands on caring, which means leaving my husband with someone else, and that's what he's afraid of, and resists with all his might. We now have a couple of lovely " friends" who come into the house, and my husband was reluctant, but willing to go out with one of them on little outings, but now he resists doing that.
How can that situation be changed? If he's calmed with medication, won't he be too dopey to go out anywhere?
I imagine if his low mood doesn't improve medication will have to be resorted to. And then everything is likely to change.