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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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  • I had the same thing from the autism assessment team. There were actually things in my notes that did suggest autism, which a therapist found a couple of months after the refusal, when I was assessed for psychological therapies by the same NHS organisation. But I decided to go private for my assessment because although I could have been re-referred I couldn't trust that the service wouldn't be as prejudiced as they'd been when I was referred the first time. I was diagnosed in July after more than a decade of using mental health services that couldn't/wouldn't see my autism as being at the root of my difficulties.

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  • I had the same thing from the autism assessment team. There were actually things in my notes that did suggest autism, which a therapist found a couple of months after the refusal, when I was assessed for psychological therapies by the same NHS organisation. But I decided to go private for my assessment because although I could have been re-referred I couldn't trust that the service wouldn't be as prejudiced as they'd been when I was referred the first time. I was diagnosed in July after more than a decade of using mental health services that couldn't/wouldn't see my autism as being at the root of my difficulties.

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