Thanks for getting back to me @MattyToo @Sehnsucht @Kurra @Appleblossom.  Sorry it's taken me so long to reply but I still can't access the forums from my new laptop and have to use a borrowed tablet when I can.  Finally got thru to a service with support workers this week, only to have them confirm I DO need an NDIS plan and funding approval to get help from them. So I bit the bullet and rang NDIS. They are posting out forms to be done by me and my Dr and psychologist and returned to them by 10 March. Problem :  ap't with psychologist is not til 9 March!  I will try to get an extension of deadline from them.  It took 40 minutes on hold to get that done.  I also had to give them consent to access my Centrelink records.   So much anxiety about the whole process.  Especially as I've only relocated interstate recently and am a new patient to the people I need to fill out the forms.  Have to wait til 23 March to start with a new psychiatrist.

the whole thing feels like a catch 22 situation coz a support worker would be helping me go thru this process.  And it seems like if you have support services in place already you are more likely to get NDIS approval.

Thank goodness for the family support I have.  I can see how isolation like I had where I lived before would make it just seem too hard.