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Letter of complaint

Hope

 

Today I sent off a letter of complaint to my local Community Mental Health Team, and it was a great relief to get it off my chest.

In the letter I wrote that, maybe I am naive, but I assumed that the Autism Act 2009 meant that I would gain access to therapy tailored to my needs; that anxiety, it seems, is given short shrift because it is not considered an 'illness' in the same way that depression is - I can get out of bed, no matter that I suffer chronically 24/7. This is the essence of what I wrote, and I requested therapy from  someone who is autism aware, and that the therapy should last longer than the standard 6 weeks.

The letter was addressed to the head of the mental health team.

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  • I currently find myself in the opposite position.

    I couldn't persaude my doctor to refer me for an aspergers assessment so have been sent off for 30+ weeks therapy on the anxiety and depression. It seems that although all the books say that the two problems often become interlinked our health service is incapable of dealing with them in a unified manner.

    Perhaps it is because the "assessment form" does not permit these trained individuals to tick more than one box at a time? That sounds stupid but I suspect that there is a fair degree of truth in it. 

    Dunk

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  • I currently find myself in the opposite position.

    I couldn't persaude my doctor to refer me for an aspergers assessment so have been sent off for 30+ weeks therapy on the anxiety and depression. It seems that although all the books say that the two problems often become interlinked our health service is incapable of dealing with them in a unified manner.

    Perhaps it is because the "assessment form" does not permit these trained individuals to tick more than one box at a time? That sounds stupid but I suspect that there is a fair degree of truth in it. 

    Dunk

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