I have been begging for a therapist for years but all of my problems get put down to autistic difficulties so nothing comes of it.
I was once told I’ve not been through enough trauma by the crisis team…
In the past 2 years I’ve been abandoned by my mother, been homeless, my friend and roommate committed suicide, me and my partner have been the victims of an aggravated burglary, my partner is recurrently ill and on the verge of death weekly, we’ve had a stillborn baby and a car accident, but that’s not enough for the crisis team to help me.
I’ve self referred to all of the places that have been suggested, I’m either told that they do CBT and they don’t think that it will work with my autism or there’s a backlog of 2 years and they’ll get back to me whenever they can.
They effectively dumped me onto social care, but my social worker went ballistic at the CT because she believes I’m unable to move on with my life until these issues are addressed.
My GP also wrote to the social worker and stated
“He has clearly had a number of traumatic past life events and also has on-going stresses relating to debt / housing / his partner’s health.
He may benefit with psychotherapy and I think he may also benefit from an antidepressant if he is able to take this more consistently. He would also benefit with support to increase his social contact. He has been working towards taking his medication more consistently but is still probably not taking these more than 4 days out of 7, though that is an improvement from before. It is hard to see him benefiting from more formal psychotherapy until he is more consistently able to engage with appointments.”
So which is it? Would I benefit from psychotherapy or not? I’m agoraphobic and do not sleep because of the break in, that’s why I struggle with attending appointments. I do not feel safe in my home or the streets surrounding it.
He then went on to say that due to a lack of CPN support available that its unlikely I’d be considered.
I googled what a CPN is and apparently they make home visits… so why is that not an option?
Well today I went to file a CICA (compensation for being a victim of a violent crime) but I was told that my psychological damage would not be considered unless I had a formal report from a psychiatrist. I tried to explain all of the difficulties I’ve been having in securing one but they were adamant that unless I have that report then my psychological trauma wouldn’t be considered for compensation.
I speak to my GP monthly and the mental health nurse fortnightly but that’s all I have in terms of medical support.
I have a support worker who has just started and comes for up to 6 hours a week but very little has been done so far in terms of chasing things up.
What do I do? Who do I call?
