"Don’t feel like I’m listened to and not receiving the help I need."

I don’t feel like I’m being listened to and understood by my psychiatrist. It feels like my mental health is downplayed and blamed on my autism and ADHD. I feel like this is then resulting in me not receiving the help and treatment I need.

I’m really struggling with my mental health and it hurts so much inside to know I’m not being believed.

There’s also other ongoing issues like difficulty getting in contact with the MHT and things not being followed up. I wish I had some point of contact like a care coordinator or CPN to help me with this because I’m really struggling with it.

I had an appointment with a different Dr today who was honestly really lovely. But he wasn’t able to change my medication even though I was told I would receive the same level of care. The reason he gave was that the medication change has to be done by the consultant.

This has really annoyed me because the MHT knew that I was going to be discussing other treatment options, so I don’t understand why I was given an appointment with someone who was unable to do that.

Something he said that has really upset me was that the medication I asked about was for people who are severely depressed. That feels really invalidating because I’m feeling really depressed but yet they’re not acknowledging that.

It feels like that what I’m feeling inside is not what they’re seeing on the outside. I don’t know if that’s because of my anxiety, I get really nervous talking to them. I think it could also be because of my autism, as I really struggle communicating what’s in my head, verbally. But I feel like that they should already be aware of that.