Thank you :)

ACC is a New Zealand phenomenon… It’s the government’s “no blame” accident insurance agency. Basically, if you are a NZ citizen and get accidentally injured in NZ you are covered by the insurance scheme. With “sensitive claims”, or claims for sexual abuse, you also qualify for the scheme due to the “mental injury” created by the abuse. This helps pay for therapy, medication and psychiatric appointments. So it has a big positive side – we wouldn’t be able to afford therapy or medication without being part of the scheme.

The big downside of the entire thing is that you need to tell your therapist about the events that lead to the “mental injury” – that is the events of abuse. In many cases this can be a “x abuse by y person occurred from 19xx-19xx”. But in some of the instances it is a little more complicated. It is this event history that we have to clarify over the next couple of weeks.

Take care…

I don’t know what “ACC” is (is it a US phenomenon?) but the whole thing sounds tricky and complicated so my/our thoughts are with you.

BTC

We’re fine though…

Do you realise that it makes some of us smile whenever we read your name :) I think that a few of us have a secret desire to be bold and creative…

We would never express the anger and frustration or any of the extreme emotions at you. I’m not really aware that we’re experiencing them at all – although having read the protected post it’s obvious that some of us are confused and hurting.

The reason for having to write the history is that the current history they have is inaccurate and mixed-up. I’m not sure if this is the fault of our poor communication skills, our previous therapist not detailing it correctly, or the assessing psychiatrist. It really doesn’t matter, we just need to do it in order to ensure that we continue to receive assistance and consideration for the allowance we need to pay for therapy.

I agree that it’s not fair that we have to do this. It’s one of the ways in which the system re-victimises those with sensitive claims for sexual abuse. We could refuse to provide it, but that will just mean that we’d be forced to undergo another round of psychiatric testing to see if we should be in the ACC scheme. At least this way we can maintain some form of control over the situation.

We didn’t self-injure last night. We’re OK :)
Thank you for caring and posting this…
Take care

In my opinion it is unfair (by the ACC, the legal system, the society as whole, the God) to trigger you with having to list the incidences of abuse (before allowing you to be helped).

It’s plain wrong what they are doing. They are guilty. Not you.

Please let the inside hatred be directed at them (not at yourself by self-injuring).

They deserve to be injuried (i.e. not you).

Can you express the inside hatred at them, please?

If you can not… can you at least direct the anger at me (for whatever reason) instead of self-injuring?

They should apologize to you for triggering you.

We’re better today. Just not looking forward to having to list the incidences of abuse…

Take care