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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 CC, That's why Im nervous about going to see this clinical psychologist, because despite my visit to the GP, he didn't refer me for assessment, just for some talkie therapy. So in some respects, I have to go through the routine again of trying to convince this guy!

    My experience of psychologists in the past - they're nice people, they talk well, but half the time, they give you a form for anxiety, or a form for depression, if you don't score high enough, you're cured, please leave. The reason for this may be the lack of funding in mental health issues. What I've been concious of previously, is not necessarily getting everything out I want to get to out. And they can only work with what you tell them in some respects.

    I've also had a one terrible experience of a psychologist in another situation which Im not going into.

    It's also not that Im scared of telling the truth, but that sometimes I don't necessarily acknowledge the truth. Ok, another example. If someone asked me am i clumsy. No Im not clumsy. But I've just been cooking - I've dropped lids, cutlery, lost cutlery in the food, while stirring, food has escaped from the pan, there'll be the occasional flick as Im doing something and it goes everywhere, I've knocked the frying pan on the floor spilling everything, broken the mop bucket and destroyed a t-shirt when I knocked over the bottle of soy sauce!

    Tomorrow will be a new day, I will forget it, put it to the back of my mind - Im not clumsy. 

    Oh dear. Yes I am. I am clumsy, but Im pushing it away for some reason.

    Thanks asparagus for your input. I don't think I can wait years for this, life is limbo due to the non-diagnosis thing. This year I need to make changes. But one of those changes includes me quitting work and going somewhere. I don't want to have to stick what Im doing for another couple of years just waiting on a diagnosis. Oh well.
    Thanks
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  • Hi CC, That's why Im nervous about going to see this clinical psychologist, because despite my visit to the GP, he didn't refer me for assessment, just for some talkie therapy. So in some respects, I have to go through the routine again of trying to convince this guy!

    My experience of psychologists in the past - they're nice people, they talk well, but half the time, they give you a form for anxiety, or a form for depression, if you don't score high enough, you're cured, please leave. The reason for this may be the lack of funding in mental health issues. What I've been concious of previously, is not necessarily getting everything out I want to get to out. And they can only work with what you tell them in some respects.

    I've also had a one terrible experience of a psychologist in another situation which Im not going into.

    It's also not that Im scared of telling the truth, but that sometimes I don't necessarily acknowledge the truth. Ok, another example. If someone asked me am i clumsy. No Im not clumsy. But I've just been cooking - I've dropped lids, cutlery, lost cutlery in the food, while stirring, food has escaped from the pan, there'll be the occasional flick as Im doing something and it goes everywhere, I've knocked the frying pan on the floor spilling everything, broken the mop bucket and destroyed a t-shirt when I knocked over the bottle of soy sauce!

    Tomorrow will be a new day, I will forget it, put it to the back of my mind - Im not clumsy. 

    Oh dear. Yes I am. I am clumsy, but Im pushing it away for some reason.

    Thanks asparagus for your input. I don't think I can wait years for this, life is limbo due to the non-diagnosis thing. This year I need to make changes. But one of those changes includes me quitting work and going somewhere. I don't want to have to stick what Im doing for another couple of years just waiting on a diagnosis. Oh well.
    Thanks
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