Sleep pattern

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Had depot yesterday. Told depot nurse come care-co that my sleep pattern isn’t good. Buzzing noise.Tinnitus or wax blockage? Keep drifting off to sleep during the day. I described it as ‘losing time’. I mentioned feeling useless and worthless.

My mood does dip at this time of year, but the feeling useless/worthless is a constant. I’m not majorly depressed. She think I am depressed. On a separate note mentioned that several people with ADHD had suggested I might have the Inattentive type.

We agreed that it was far too late to go through the assessment process. 20-30 years ago-certainly. Any damage caused isn’t going to be reversible. I have to live with the effects as best I can rather than what could/should have been.That’s easier said than done. Apparently where I live you have to wait 5 years to get an ADHD assessment. That’s beyond dreadful. It’s totally unacceptable.

I hate having EF difficulties. I get so annoyed and frustrated with myself. To the point of swearing at myself.

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The trouble I found with the neurodevelopment teams here are that you wait all that time and if you get diagnosed (ASD) in my case there is nothing they can offer in way of support

I got an A4 sheet of paper that had a list of services in third sector that were defunct

Don’t blame you one bit for leaving it well alone

From what I see here the medication regime becomes quite tricky when you add the ADHD medications to psychosis meds

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Imagine a 25 year old cancer sufferer being told ‘You’re over 18 so we won’t support and treat you, but here’s a leaflet with tips on how to live a bit longer’.

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I really thought the act from 2009 would have at least asked for some sort of support

Getting a diagnosis and no assistance is not good

Your point is spot on

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Could have done with knowing this when I was dropping out of school

But late 90’s and early 00’s things were quite backward

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Whether to do with autism or anything else I was born too early to get even the better, but still not great, help and support that’s available. today. I don’t think much of the current generation of autistic and/or severely mentally ill have much of a clue as to how hard it’s been for those of my generation. I’m a pale shadow achievement wise of the person I was at one time,long before many here were born,capable of being…

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It’s still not good in some places

Here found that two of my old care coordinators have been struck off

One for stealing a patients record to turn up on the door for sexual relations

The other promised the crisis team to someone - he did that for me too, but it was lies and the person in question committed suicide

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This is my previous mental health trust .They went through various name changes over the years that my mental health care was provided by them. The names changed but the awful behaviour only lessened when I drastically lowered my attempts to get an appropriate level of help and support from them.

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That’s absolutely shocking :flushed:

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I don’t understand how they got away with 2000 deaths. How come that no alarms went off earlier? @firemonkey

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A very good question, that I don’t have an answer for other than ‘they covered their tracks well’ . Not having been an inpatient for a very long time I had no idea how things were re inpatient care.

I just knew my treatment as a ‘care in the community’ patient was unacceptably bad.

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