I had to do a face call with a psychiatrist a while back to take my history for the assessment. I still can not get my results because of the virus and that I need to meet them back a second time. I constantly felt the psychiatrist was dismissing all the symptoms I had and was not listening, it did not help that I had a bad wi-fi connection and part of the conversation kept cutting out. I self-harmed after the assessment and cry. I already have too many bad experiences with a mental health professional on the NHS. I don't know what to do if they don't diagnosis me with autism I already have a very difficult time to attend university because I would be in the bathroom self-harming because the classroom would overwhelm me. I struggle to make friends and I am constantly repeating myself on top of that I have diagnosis dyslexia and possibly undiagnosed ADHD (I looking into paying privately for that assessment). I try therapy before but nothing works as I end up getting discharged from the therapy service. I try to contact them today to ask when will there possibly be my next appointment due to lockdown being easing up. I feel my issue are (I am a woman of colour) being ignored by the NHS.
