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Discharged by mental health services for being autistic

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Hi

I'm autistic and have serious anxiety disorder 

I've recently been discharged by community mental health services for being autistic and struggling really badly with a recent trauma that has effected my mental health really badly 

My CPN worker had boldy told me that if I cannot engage with them then they cannot support me and had a deeply critical tone to the way she said it putting so much hurtful blame on to me making me feel like I was an inadequate piece of ***. Even though I had stated that I'm struggling with suicidal thoughts and struggling with anxiety and being autistic. But I feel like that as I am unwell and I cannot help my neuro divergency ( autism ) and mental health illness it was incredibly unfair that they did such a thing and that in all honesty I believe they couldn't care less about supporting me. 

I'm not sure what I do now as my mental health is deteriorating and I've been discharged by community mental health services because I'm mentally unwell. 

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks 

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  • Other people will probably give you practical advice on where to turn.  I can only give you sympathy and understanding.   It reminds me of a job centre appointment, where my work coach rejected the suggestion that I was autistic and said that in her opinion I was completely normal, two minutes later she was reprimanding me for having unusual body language and not communicating clearly.

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  • Other people will probably give you practical advice on where to turn.  I can only give you sympathy and understanding.   It reminds me of a job centre appointment, where my work coach rejected the suggestion that I was autistic and said that in her opinion I was completely normal, two minutes later she was reprimanding me for having unusual body language and not communicating clearly.

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