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Does life actually get better? What does it take to get actual help?

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Does life actually get better? I've been depressed since around June 2017 and I've only really gotten worse over time.

What does it take to get actual help? I'm under a mental health team, but I also have autism and I'm not sure how they're going to help me with my comorbid conditions. There is an autism inpatient unit, but I think they are reluctant to send me there. I think they think that I can be treated from home, but I don't think I can because I sometimes get thoughts and feelings of self-harm and I so badly want to act on them, but I'm scared of the pain and also if the scar would remind me of when I was in a bad time in my life. I so desperately want help, but I don't want to take an overdose because then I'd have to get my stomach pumped. Cutting is another thing that kinda scares me (not as much as overdosing).

I'm thinking of starving myself, although it causes discomfort, I've done it before and lost weight really quickly. I know my brain would be telling me to eat, but I can do it - I've done it before, I can do it again! If I do starve myself, would the mental health team deem me as unsafe and then have to intervene? I know I'm morbidly obese and require more energy than people who are not obese, but I think it'll make me happier if I starve myself because then I'd lose weight really quickly as well.

I'm just so desperate for help and can't cope with this way of living anymore. It's like no one at the mental health team takes me seriously. It's like my mental illnesses aren't valid because they're not deemed as life threatening.

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  • I am not a medical Professional but i have used the service multiple times before and have even attempted suicide multiple times.

    I can tell you know that the crisis team is not suitable in treating you. I know that sounds blunt but someone has to be honest with you.

    I can say this from my own experience with absolute understanding and knowledge that they are not equipped or have a basic understanding of how to support patients with autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DIsorder and specific learning conditions with comorbid mental health conditions.

    The crisis do not understand that they need to not only treat the the depression and anxiety but also have to treat the autism related behaviour and disfunction at the time to have any positive outcome and they are not obligated to ensure or oversee you a referred to the correct service and obviously have failed in the duty of care if they haven't referred to you local authority adult social service department. 

    The crisis team staff including psychologists and therapists are not obligated to go through any sort of neurodevelopmental disorder or Specific Learning disorder training and that is a major problems across england. Yet again the Crisis staff and the mental health department are notorious for malpractice when it come to autistic individuals and have clearly failed in their duty of care to recognise their own limitations in treating patients with autism, not only do they fail to recognise autism spectrum disorder but their outdated understanding about autism spectrum diagnosis is dangerous.

    It's also should be noted that they have failed to refer you to appropriate services and have failed in their duty of care to perform the responsibility of safeguarding when you are possible a threat to your own life and have ignored the increased risk of suicide and other health condition associated with autism spectrum disorder. 

    You need to contact adult social service to perform a capability assessment where they will assess your needs. Once assessed they will sign post you organisation that can help and support you. Social services should be able to provide you support workers that can help with housing, benefits and access to work. 

    Their are organisation like shaw trust & Scope that work with individuals with disability, mental health problems and disadvantage backgrounds and provide a range of support to help you become independent unfortunately you need to be referred by the job centre.

                

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  • I am not a medical Professional but i have used the service multiple times before and have even attempted suicide multiple times.

    I can tell you know that the crisis team is not suitable in treating you. I know that sounds blunt but someone has to be honest with you.

    I can say this from my own experience with absolute understanding and knowledge that they are not equipped or have a basic understanding of how to support patients with autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DIsorder and specific learning conditions with comorbid mental health conditions.

    The crisis do not understand that they need to not only treat the the depression and anxiety but also have to treat the autism related behaviour and disfunction at the time to have any positive outcome and they are not obligated to ensure or oversee you a referred to the correct service and obviously have failed in the duty of care if they haven't referred to you local authority adult social service department. 

    The crisis team staff including psychologists and therapists are not obligated to go through any sort of neurodevelopmental disorder or Specific Learning disorder training and that is a major problems across england. Yet again the Crisis staff and the mental health department are notorious for malpractice when it come to autistic individuals and have clearly failed in their duty of care to recognise their own limitations in treating patients with autism, not only do they fail to recognise autism spectrum disorder but their outdated understanding about autism spectrum diagnosis is dangerous.

    It's also should be noted that they have failed to refer you to appropriate services and have failed in their duty of care to perform the responsibility of safeguarding when you are possible a threat to your own life and have ignored the increased risk of suicide and other health condition associated with autism spectrum disorder. 

    You need to contact adult social service to perform a capability assessment where they will assess your needs. Once assessed they will sign post you organisation that can help and support you. Social services should be able to provide you support workers that can help with housing, benefits and access to work. 

    Their are organisation like shaw trust & Scope that work with individuals with disability, mental health problems and disadvantage backgrounds and provide a range of support to help you become independent unfortunately you need to be referred by the job centre.

                

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