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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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  • @Longman, difficulties with colleagues would come under communication deficits.  I agree that sensory issues should be written into the ICD-11.  I think the triad is OK as a broad description under which to encompass the diagnostic criteria but as you say the triad is what we have deficits in, we need the how it affects our lives.  Having said that, anyone seeking help (like OP) should not be turned away whether it's autism or a co-morbid mental health issue.

    The trouble as I see it, is that the government is not policing the Autism Strategy, as I have said elsewhere they are not holding authorities to account.  Within the NHS, individual clinicians also hold too much power and decide whether they will comply or not.  Anyone in the department will then cow-tow to their decision and refuse to help (this has happened to me personally).  There is a passing the buck attitude in the NHS, a lack of accountability and a seeming holding clinicians in a God-like awe that allows them way too much power.

    I don't care how many letters they have after their name, I don't care how long they have been in post, and I don't care how "expert" they claim to be.  They are still employees and they are still accountable and they damned well still have to abide by the rules and the law!

    When is anyone going to ensure they do!!!

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  • @Longman, difficulties with colleagues would come under communication deficits.  I agree that sensory issues should be written into the ICD-11.  I think the triad is OK as a broad description under which to encompass the diagnostic criteria but as you say the triad is what we have deficits in, we need the how it affects our lives.  Having said that, anyone seeking help (like OP) should not be turned away whether it's autism or a co-morbid mental health issue.

    The trouble as I see it, is that the government is not policing the Autism Strategy, as I have said elsewhere they are not holding authorities to account.  Within the NHS, individual clinicians also hold too much power and decide whether they will comply or not.  Anyone in the department will then cow-tow to their decision and refuse to help (this has happened to me personally).  There is a passing the buck attitude in the NHS, a lack of accountability and a seeming holding clinicians in a God-like awe that allows them way too much power.

    I don't care how many letters they have after their name, I don't care how long they have been in post, and I don't care how "expert" they claim to be.  They are still employees and they are still accountable and they damned well still have to abide by the rules and the law!

    When is anyone going to ensure they do!!!

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