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barnet mental health trust no longer works with people with ASD

peterainbow

so after having to fight to get a proper assessment so that i could get targeted help, having got that barnet mental health trust have now chnaged it's rules and now no longer offers help to people on ASD

this seem like discrimination to me, i now have to go and get my GP to go and argue with the main NHStrust or something, so basically it won;t happen

i suffer from sever depression and anxiety and although my psychs help has been limited, he has at least made me feel that i'm not on my own, he told me today that he can no monger accept appointments to see me as i am ASD, he doesn't agree with this but this is what BMHT have told him...

surely this cannot be right, i now have nowhere to go...

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  • Was away on holiday last week but noticed my name has cropped up above. I can only advise NAS that as long as autism is ill-defined on their website GPs and specialists can "run rings round" people looking for help, because there just aren't proper definitions out there.

    Particularly, as I keep ranting to NAS about, to no avail, the Triad of Impairments should not be used as an all sizes summation of what people have to live with when they are on the spectrum.

    Things that aren't in the triad then become secondaries or semi-related. So if you get sensory overload, or you have difficulties interacting with work colleagues, or suffer distress, that can all be put down as something different from autism. Or as in this case it can be loosely bagged in with - that's just autism - nothing to do with us.

    It is too late NAS having this Push for Action campaign because no-one understands what action NAS wants pushed. As NAS itself is pushing the "its just the Triad of Impairments with a few other knobs and whistles" - anyway.

    So as I understand it - according to Barnet and Peterainbow's GP he's just got ASD, which they don't treat, which is just Alice in Wonderland. But if you leave the whole thing so ill-defined, of course this is going to happen.

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  • Was away on holiday last week but noticed my name has cropped up above. I can only advise NAS that as long as autism is ill-defined on their website GPs and specialists can "run rings round" people looking for help, because there just aren't proper definitions out there.

    Particularly, as I keep ranting to NAS about, to no avail, the Triad of Impairments should not be used as an all sizes summation of what people have to live with when they are on the spectrum.

    Things that aren't in the triad then become secondaries or semi-related. So if you get sensory overload, or you have difficulties interacting with work colleagues, or suffer distress, that can all be put down as something different from autism. Or as in this case it can be loosely bagged in with - that's just autism - nothing to do with us.

    It is too late NAS having this Push for Action campaign because no-one understands what action NAS wants pushed. As NAS itself is pushing the "its just the Triad of Impairments with a few other knobs and whistles" - anyway.

    So as I understand it - according to Barnet and Peterainbow's GP he's just got ASD, which they don't treat, which is just Alice in Wonderland. But if you leave the whole thing so ill-defined, of course this is going to happen.

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