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Appointment with my local Mental Health Team

Undiagnosed4321

I got a letter through with an appointment to see my local mental health team at the end of February. I haven't been given anything to fill out for depression or anxiety so they can decide if Im worth treating. I actually have an appointment with a clinical psychologist.

Im mostly sure from what was said at my GP's appointment, that this isn't going to be for Autism or anything, this is just going to be an initial chat and examine some things - social anxiety, aspergers maybe, any one of the number of different options.

I've been trying to discuss with people around me some of the things that affect me, and frustratingly, many turn around and say, oh, that's normal - many people are like that.

Really? So normal people bite their nails, pick their nose and eat it, pluck their hair, walk round the block twice because they don't have confidence to go into a venue, find it hard to ask questions, find it difficult in a group, find it difficult to approach people, don't have a girlfriend, still live with parents? That's about 1/100th of everything I've got written down elsewhere. Im not getting into the contents of that.

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    Hi U4321

    You are stuck with trying to boil your story down into a neat linear set of points to put to the specialists. As I understand it, autistic people don't tend to think in nice linear stories with a beginning and an end. I have always struggled with tasks like this and have dabbled with mind maps and other such methods. I believe that this is because we tend to have associative, or lateral, thinking patterns where ideas aren't remembered as lists but rather as webs of interconnected things each thing having multiple links to other thoughts and ideas.

    You will have limited time to get your thoughts and problems across to the person examining you. Writing it down may help you practice and recall your stories but I don't think that this will be read in the consultation. Have you tried limiting yourself to a single piece of paper and just noting some key points?

    (PS @CC, did you know that you can edit any of your previous posts whenever you like? There is an edit link that appears on each of your own posts when you are logged in)

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    Hi U4321

    You are stuck with trying to boil your story down into a neat linear set of points to put to the specialists. As I understand it, autistic people don't tend to think in nice linear stories with a beginning and an end. I have always struggled with tasks like this and have dabbled with mind maps and other such methods. I believe that this is because we tend to have associative, or lateral, thinking patterns where ideas aren't remembered as lists but rather as webs of interconnected things each thing having multiple links to other thoughts and ideas.

    You will have limited time to get your thoughts and problems across to the person examining you. Writing it down may help you practice and recall your stories but I don't think that this will be read in the consultation. Have you tried limiting yourself to a single piece of paper and just noting some key points?

    (PS @CC, did you know that you can edit any of your previous posts whenever you like? There is an edit link that appears on each of your own posts when you are logged in)

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