Saw the link to this organisation on the SA ME/CFS Society’s site, it seems like a great resource:
Life goes on - Strategies and choices for the seriously ill and those who care for them.
It looks like a positive and helpful organisation. They offer telephone counselling for patients and carers for the cost of a local call – and the counsellors themselves all have personal experience of serious illness. There’ll be online counselling in future, too. As far as I know there hasn’t been anything exactly like this in Australia before. There is Lifeline of course, but this one is targeted specifically at sick folk and carers. I have no personal experience with them, nor do I know anyone who has, but it looks good. Just mentioning in case it’s helpful to anyone out there: if not you, then perhaps a loved one, or if you work in healthcare, your patients/their families. Sometimes half the battle is knowing what resources are available!
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