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Denied assessment by community mental health team

Glasvegas82

Hi, I have always suspected that I was different from every one else. I am now 38 and finally got up the courage to ask my GP for a referral for Autistic assessment. 

My GP was amazing and had no issues referring me. That was three weeks ago, today I received a letter from a Community Mental Health Team. This is what it said...

We recently received a letter from your GP with regards to a query of autism.

What is of help when we receive your referral is that we are able to call up psychiatric notes for yourself.

On detailed review of your notes there is absolutely nothing to indicate that you have autism. It would appear that you have struggled for a long time with anxiety and low mood, and you have struggled socially for some time. We are of the belief that your presentation is more in keeping with anxiety as opposed to autism.
May I wish you the best.

I am so taken a back by this, they didn’t even attempt to speak with me. Feeling hopeless. What do I do?

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  • That's ridiculous, I would have thought it is impossible to tell if someone is autistic of not without having interviewed them face to face

     was diagnosed last year

    I initially saw the doctor because I was suffering with long term anxiety issues.

    He referred me to the NHS mental health team(Wiltshire IAPT) for CBT therapy

    It was during the CBT sessions that they picked up on the probable autism as the root cause of my anxiety. I think the CBT therapists are now trained to spot autism as it is now seen as responsible for a lot of mental health conditions

    They then submitted a detailed report to the specialist autism service in my area and eventually had an assesment leading to a diagnosis

    If I were you I would go back to your GP and ask for CBT therapy (I think the NICE guideline is to see patients within 6 weeks) and follow the route I took

  • in reply to PINARELLO F8

    wow great CBT team! Mine was useless, gave me a phone number for the local Autistic society and made me so anxious i had to leave the room and had a meltdown in the toilet. I never went back after that

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