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They can use the CBT to help complete the referal or they certainly did with mine as it was still in their filing ..... So make the most of it if offered it again.  That is how I got recognised by the way. I had some CBT then a year off and referred myself for it again. The second time it began to felt like i was being passed from pillar to post as they suggested someone in another department who specialises in what I was saying I felt lacking... This time it was a genuine being passed to another department and I was peaved at the first session but stuck with it. It kind of took them couple of month (0ver the time) to take a real detailed history and collect the previous CBT stuff I had done and at the end of the block she kept asking me if I wanted to know what it was.... I didn't think it was anything having been through mental health etc.... It was them who referred me for Asperger's. Autism was the end result. Or rather Atypical Autism - 2/3'rds Autism with NOS-PDD.  The book declares it not a helpful diagnosis but for me it was a 'heaven sent' diagnosis. I was that worried about what would happen if they said it wasn't anything on the ASD scale and starting again somehow but then I kept telling me, it wasn't me that made the referal, it was a CBT Psychologist.  It Autism but it not as my occupational nurse keeps saying at times. But basically for general public it easier to say autism because I do very much need that other process to things and been told I can apply for any benefits saying Autism and tick that box on forms. I have just completed a medical for Pips and awaiting that. I don't think I will get full amount because physically I am able. It social-ness and shyness and what happens when things go wrong and needing that little bit extra understanding and things. I relate to the jigsaw puzzle piece very well in that feels like some pieces are missing. I need that help to sort it. 

I found CBT easy enough whilst in the sessions but it really isn't something I find I can do on my own.....  I these days share with a trusted person and that helps lots for me.

Hope you get somewhere with something. I took a long time I know that but that because I am looking back over that period. It took forever between referal and assesment. Before Referal it also took forever but because I wasn't aware of what 'they' were thinking.... that was easy to go through as such.

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They can use the CBT to help complete the referal or they certainly did with mine as it was still in their filing ..... So make the most of it if offered it again.  That is how I got recognised by the way. I had some CBT then a year off and referred myself for it again. The second time it began to felt like i was being passed from pillar to post as they suggested someone in another department who specialises in what I was saying I felt lacking... This time it was a genuine being passed to another department and I was peaved at the first session but stuck with it. It kind of took them couple of month (0ver the time) to take a real detailed history and collect the previous CBT stuff I had done and at the end of the block she kept asking me if I wanted to know what it was.... I didn't think it was anything having been through mental health etc.... It was them who referred me for Asperger's. Autism was the end result. Or rather Atypical Autism - 2/3'rds Autism with NOS-PDD.  The book declares it not a helpful diagnosis but for me it was a 'heaven sent' diagnosis. I was that worried about what would happen if they said it wasn't anything on the ASD scale and starting again somehow but then I kept telling me, it wasn't me that made the referal, it was a CBT Psychologist.  It Autism but it not as my occupational nurse keeps saying at times. But basically for general public it easier to say autism because I do very much need that other process to things and been told I can apply for any benefits saying Autism and tick that box on forms. I have just completed a medical for Pips and awaiting that. I don't think I will get full amount because physically I am able. It social-ness and shyness and what happens when things go wrong and needing that little bit extra understanding and things. I relate to the jigsaw puzzle piece very well in that feels like some pieces are missing. I need that help to sort it. 

I found CBT easy enough whilst in the sessions but it really isn't something I find I can do on my own.....  I these days share with a trusted person and that helps lots for me.

Hope you get somewhere with something. I took a long time I know that but that because I am looking back over that period. It took forever between referal and assesment. Before Referal it also took forever but because I wasn't aware of what 'they' were thinking.... that was easy to go through as such.