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Where next if NHS assessment isn't available?

dunk-in-biscuit

Hi folks, this thread has probably been covered hundreds of times but can't see it.

After cautiously self-diagnosing myself with Aspergers and backing this us with the online tests and lots of reading I headed to my GP to formally ask for an assessment. As usual, what fell out my mouth while there wasn't exactly convincing but his realistic opinion was that due to lack of resources (or lack of willing) I was not going to get an assessment in Cumbria if I was not of school age. Now I can knock a few years off my age by shaving off the beard but the receeding hairline is a bit of a give away - so I think it is safe to say this route is closed.

I've been (thankfully) offered CBT to beat back the depression and social anxiety but understandedly they won't touch the aspergers with a barge pole.

But heres the rub......having started down the road I know I won't be able to move on until get some form of "answer" that makes sence of who I am. Self-diagnosis is fine but I could just as easily convince myself donkies only have three legs!

Have any of you any experience of how you gain certainty (and peace) about being on the spectrum in the absence of a formal assessment.

Regards Dunk

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  • Thanks for the links. I've had a good read through the aims of the group. I'll contact the council and see if they will tell me if the program is still running and then slip in the question of whether this has resulted in a route to recieve help or if it was all just words. I'll be nice....er well perhaps cunning.

    Whilst reading through the policies on GP referals I suspect that they have to find evidence that a referal to a specialist is necessary. One of his questions to me at the time was whether how I was feeling could be a different guise of the depression or anxiety which is perhaps why he suggested sending me down that route first. I couldn't find the words to answer that at the time. It's simple really though depression is in your head, its a brain thing but aspergers is in your heart, its sort of who you are. Perhaps next time I will write it down in a letter and send that ahead of the appointment and then go through it while there. 

    Thanks again. Dunk

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  • Thanks for the links. I've had a good read through the aims of the group. I'll contact the council and see if they will tell me if the program is still running and then slip in the question of whether this has resulted in a route to recieve help or if it was all just words. I'll be nice....er well perhaps cunning.

    Whilst reading through the policies on GP referals I suspect that they have to find evidence that a referal to a specialist is necessary. One of his questions to me at the time was whether how I was feeling could be a different guise of the depression or anxiety which is perhaps why he suggested sending me down that route first. I couldn't find the words to answer that at the time. It's simple really though depression is in your head, its a brain thing but aspergers is in your heart, its sort of who you are. Perhaps next time I will write it down in a letter and send that ahead of the appointment and then go through it while there. 

    Thanks again. Dunk

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