What extra support do you actually get?
In the US?
In the UK?
In your country?
Maybe I should ask. If its gonna help me.
I have obsessions. I like routine. But most importantly I am socially not amazing. I feel anxiety in most social situations, if not all.
What dose of abilify are you currently on?
2.5mg… Why do you ask?
I was just curious that is a very low dose
It is but can you imagine I still feel medicated…
How long have you been on that dose? It isn’t a strong antipsychotic
Since January this year. I think. Need to double check that with my gp for my own record actually
I am in Sussex England, and you get no support.
I told this to @anon80629714 about my experiences of this yesterday:
Try to tread carefully
I don’t want to put you off, as I am sure a diagnosis helps some people, but my psychologist put me forward for a test, and now she says she can’t help.
My post0diagnostic support was the specialist not bothering to dial in on my pdoc appointment, being told to pay for a self-help book and being asked to engage a charity for adults with Autism that has a waiting list so long, they won’t even put me on it.
Short of it is, unless by some miracle you have better luck with services where you are, a diagnosis is about as useful as stepping in dog â– â– â– â– .
I have Level One, and it wouldn’t be classed as aspergers syndrome though, just autism
That sounds awful, @Joker well since I live in a different location, I guess it won’t do me any harm to just mention how I feel about a diagnosis… But thanks for sharing your experience… So your specialist doesn’t give you any kind of autism talk therapy?
She is an NHS psychologist who is retiring next month, and thinks it is acceptable for my therapy to consist of 30 min phone calls over lockdown and to end when she conveniently is leaving.
I was told she could help me either way, but she told me that because I have autism the usual techniques of what she does just won’t help
Really sucks.
Now I have this diagnosis, and I feel annoyed that I have this for life whilst she swans off and rips off the NHS working bank instead of perm
Erm you have an autism diagnosis I would have thought they’d give you a psychologist that can have techniques that work for autism. 
Very confusing…
There are 2 groups in nearby towns,but getting to either of them is problematic for me. Undoubtedly they have been suspended indefinitely given the COVID situation.
As for practical help- my stepdaughter had put things in place prior to my being assessed , and there has been no additional support as a result of the Asperger’s dx.
For me getting the dx was about confirming that I wasn’t stupid in believing there was more going on than mental illness…
The damage resulting from years of inadequate/poor treatment wasn’t going to be reversed by a dx at the age of 62.
That’s the NHS for you.
My psychologist doesn’t seem to care now she is leaving working full time
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