Terrible experience during the assesment

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.

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  • In my experience, they usually take the easy option and will class anyone as suffering from depression and anxiety - dole out some pills and then maybe see them in a year.     Their measurement of success seems to be doping people up so much that they can't think clearly enough for suicidal ideation.

  • What that suppose to mean?? the last time I attempt suicide was last year. 

  • Sorry, I'm not talking specifically about you - I'm talking generally -  I went for an assessment and I got there 1 1/2 hours early so got to see all the regular patients coming in for their 5-minute appointments - a big jab and send them on their way.    And naturally, they decided I was depressed - and needed medicating......

  • It was the nurse at the GP who referred me, I don't think they can help me as one doctor yelled at me because I told her about scratch my skin and another doctor gave me an allergic reaction to a medicine that I did not need to be told by another doctor. 

  • Are you able to talk to your GP about it all?      I got bounced around the system until I met a psychologist who actually understood autism - so she understood my thinking patterns and how my own in-built rules had driven me into a chatch-22 situation - needing to do the right thing for people who would abuse me for doing the right thing.

    I think that the current covid rules are not helpful to people who need a proper face-to-face meeting - I'm terrible with phone calls and I've never even tried to skype.

    Your GP may be able to push a bit harder for something more appropriate for you

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  • Are you able to talk to your GP about it all?      I got bounced around the system until I met a psychologist who actually understood autism - so she understood my thinking patterns and how my own in-built rules had driven me into a chatch-22 situation - needing to do the right thing for people who would abuse me for doing the right thing.

    I think that the current covid rules are not helpful to people who need a proper face-to-face meeting - I'm terrible with phone calls and I've never even tried to skype.

    Your GP may be able to push a bit harder for something more appropriate for you

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  • It was the nurse at the GP who referred me, I don't think they can help me as one doctor yelled at me because I told her about scratch my skin and another doctor gave me an allergic reaction to a medicine that I did not need to be told by another doctor.