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is it me or is the NHS absolutely 'kin useless?!

Touay

I have long suspected that I am autistic and recently did the thing of going 'all-in' studying my difficulties and all the potential causes and I identified my two issues.

It turns out that doing a deep dive on a lifetime of emotional trauma is not as much fun as it sounds.... And I felt it would be good to get some help 'from the experts' on my two issues to help me sort through things and develop better strategies for dealing with people.

contacted the local iapt service, described the issues and what I needed. Was told they would direct me to relevant autism support services and counseling services.

I received an email which was little more than a bunch of links. all but one of the autism links were for children with autism or family support or simply broken links ... there may be one contact that could be of some use, and that was just a pdf of local services.

Regarding the counseling links ... none were anything to do with my issue.

Fortunately I am ok-ish working through my issues myself, ... but if this is the level of 'care' shown by NHS mental health services ...  how many people who contact them are made to feel even more desperate / abandoned / alone by the response.

I'm inclined to not even give feedback as to do so would invite retaliation, as anyone this sh1t at their job will need to hide their incompetence / callous disregard somehow. 

Parents

  • I don't think it's individuals being no good at their job, but the NHS not having the resource to be up to the job.

    The truth is, beyond diagnosis that you'll wait years for, they have no resources or experts to offer appropriate therapy for autistic people.

    I absolutely know what you mean. Our area has prompoted a new resource for autistic mental health called Dimentions. All it does is feed you links to information online that don't tell you anything you didn't already know or to other places to get more links.

    Basically, they are reduced to that because mental health services are flooded and they've got no one trained in therapies that actually work for autistic people anyway.

    It sucks

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  • I don't think it's individuals being no good at their job, but the NHS not having the resource to be up to the job.

    The truth is, beyond diagnosis that you'll wait years for, they have no resources or experts to offer appropriate therapy for autistic people.

    I absolutely know what you mean. Our area has prompoted a new resource for autistic mental health called Dimentions. All it does is feed you links to information online that don't tell you anything you didn't already know or to other places to get more links.

    Basically, they are reduced to that because mental health services are flooded and they've got no one trained in therapies that actually work for autistic people anyway.

    It sucks

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  • in reply to Dawn

    It's individuals not being good at their job.

    I did NHS I.T. support, as a contractor went everywhere, saw everything. 

    Shambles. Utter shambles..

    I got fired for making a fuss about the 1400 missing computers situation I encountered, but only after I'd taught their so called network back office people enough basic skills to find 1000 of the missing machines by means of reconfiguring the domain naming system, then hacking the machines we could find to make the operators register a fault so we could find the ones that were just missing leaving just the 400 that were actually AWOL.

    The guy who fired me was the guy who was supposed to be in control of the hardware, and I never was given an actual reason.