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DRAGON
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Hi
I have had a fresh assessment. I was previously listed as a long term case of mixed anxiety depressive and had support from a CPN for 8 years . My clinical circumnstances have not altered but the diagnosis has. Now it is said I have had since I was a child "Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder" and " Panic Disorder" The Psych says that the mixed anxiety depressive symptoms come within the experience of the personality disorder anyway and the Personality disorder is more specific so I lose that mixed anxiety depressive diagnosis.
But now the issues
1. I have been offered a referral to a Psychologist and don;t know whether to say yes or no. But the Psychiatrist did say that the success rates are not high especially as I have had the disorder over 30 years and only just diagnosed. She said Psychology might be of more obvious help with the panic disorder. In a dillemma therefore. Dpo I want to go into a waiting list to see a psychologist and go through the whole history all over again (the Psychiatrist said this is how it is likely to be) as my assessment with the Psychiatrist took 4 hours ! and all for what
2. This bit bothers me. The Psychiatrist said CPN's would be unhelpful for this and that the GP based mental health counsellrors would not be appropriate either. I would have thought that the combination of these socially disabling disorders ought to entitle me to have some sort of support from the services ?
Dont much likke the idea of having zero support
I have had a fresh assessment. I was previously listed as a long term case of mixed anxiety depressive and had support from a CPN for 8 years . My clinical circumnstances have not altered but the diagnosis has. Now it is said I have had since I was a child "Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder" and " Panic Disorder" The Psych says that the mixed anxiety depressive symptoms come within the experience of the personality disorder anyway and the Personality disorder is more specific so I lose that mixed anxiety depressive diagnosis.
But now the issues
1. I have been offered a referral to a Psychologist and don;t know whether to say yes or no. But the Psychiatrist did say that the success rates are not high especially as I have had the disorder over 30 years and only just diagnosed. She said Psychology might be of more obvious help with the panic disorder. In a dillemma therefore. Dpo I want to go into a waiting list to see a psychologist and go through the whole history all over again (the Psychiatrist said this is how it is likely to be) as my assessment with the Psychiatrist took 4 hours ! and all for what
2. This bit bothers me. The Psychiatrist said CPN's would be unhelpful for this and that the GP based mental health counsellrors would not be appropriate either. I would have thought that the combination of these socially disabling disorders ought to entitle me to have some sort of support from the services ?
Dont much likke the idea of having zero support