Social prescriber

Honestly I thought of asking to be referred to a social prescriber because one of my biggest issues with mental health is social isolation. But they can’t really refer me to services that don’t exist can they? It’s not like I’m agoraphobic or super anxious. I just don’t get on well with most people. And even when I do I don’t really bond with people if we don’t have some special interest in common.

most of my friends have been made through

• anime / Japanese popular culture 
• exotic science
• Obscure music that’s waining in popularity (goth / industrial)
• lewd intrests I couldn’t possibly repeat in an upstanding forum like this.

by far the most successful has been anime and I’ve tried everything to either get involved in or start a new group based around anime. I doubt a social proscriber could help me with that.

I already:

• go to the one monthly goth night in my area (it’s nice but not a great place to meet new people)
• tried to set up a club to go to anime at the cinema. 16 people signed up online but after 5 outings not one has come.
• a long time ago, tried to set up a club for PhD students to put on lectures about weird science. No one signed up and I wouldn’t know how do do something like that any more with out a student unions backing.

you can’t say I’m not trying but the services that might help me be less isolated just aren’t there. Which is I expect exactly what a social proscriber would say.

I even signed up for charity that does dating for autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities. And I know how that looks but I made a point of asking them if it was suitable for high functioning persons first.

but they’ve discontinued their dating service and when I enquired about their friend making service they couldn’t match me with anyone. They events are largely attended by on the whole lovely but not very talkative people with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities.

even the services that on paper should be there to help people like me in practice aren’t there.

Honestly I thought of asking to be referred to a social prescriber because one of my biggest issues with mental health is social isolation. But they can’t really refer me to services that don’t exist can they? It’s not like I’m agoraphobic or super anxious. I just don’t get on well with most people. And even when I do I don’t really bond with people if we don’t have some special interest in common.

most of my friends have been made through

• anime / Japanese popular culture 
• exotic science
• Obscure music that’s waining in popularity (goth / industrial)
• lewd intrests I couldn’t possibly repeat in an upstanding forum like this.

by far the most successful has been anime and I’ve tried everything to either get involved in or start a new group based around anime. I doubt a social proscriber could help me with that.

I already:

• go to the one monthly goth night in my area (it’s nice but not a great place to meet new people)
• tried to set up a club to go to anime at the cinema. 16 people signed up online but after 5 outings not one has come.
• a long time ago, tried to set up a club for PhD students to put on lectures about weird science. No one signed up and I wouldn’t know how do do something like that any more with out a student unions backing.

you can’t say I’m not trying but the services that might help me be less isolated just aren’t there. Which is I expect exactly what a social proscriber would say.

I even signed up for charity that does dating for autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities. And I know how that looks but I made a point of asking them if it was suitable for high functioning persons first.

but they’ve discontinued their dating service and when I enquired about their friend making service they couldn’t match me with anyone. They events are largely attended by on the whole lovely but not very talkative people with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities.

even the services that on paper should be there to help people like me in practice aren’t there.