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Originally Posted by pegasus
Hello Resident Bipolar,
The Assertive Outreach team are for people who are difficult to engage, tend not to take their medication, have multiple health issues as in mental health issues AND physical health issues. People who would not normally willingly go to appointments to see their social worker, GP, psychiatrist etc. So I hope you can see why the psychiatrist questioned why you would have been put with the assertive outreach team. From a professional point of view, you should have been passed on to the Adult Community mental health team, NOT the assertive outreach team.
Putting all that aside, please contact your social worker and community mental health team tomorrow. 
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That's the thing though, I do have periods of being non-compliant with medication and treatment. I have dropped out of DBT three times, and I quit CBT and refused treatment and was sectioned against my will multiple times. I have issues attending appointments because of social anxiety and Aspergers. I have a long history of refusing to attend appointments and have not attended appointments in the past on a very frequent basis. I usually have to be forced to attend and will sometimes tell me family I have been but instead just sit on the bus for an hour.
I go out only once a week due to anxieties and have PTSD currently being assessed for. I also have asthma and hypersensitivity and have extremely bad memory issues. I suffer from panic attacks on a daily basis, which is why I'm on Propanalol and Lorazepam (as well as Salbutamol and Beclamatasone for asthma, loratadine for allergies, Quitiapine for mood stabilisation, Sertraline for Depression, Risperidone for sleeping and Circadin for regulating sleep patterns (slow release melatonin).
Due to the comorbidity of Aspergers, Bipolar and Anxiety (definite diagnoses') I find it extremely difficult to explain how I feel and close myself off when questioned about emotional things. My social worker has for this reason agreed that the Assertive Outreach Team would be more suited, as did my previous psychiatrist, who knew me over the course of 5 years.
Maybe I should have explained my medical history more. But I meet the criteria, and that is why it was recommend by my psychiatrist and by the doctor who discharged me from my four month stay at a psychiatric inpatient ward. This was decided during my transition to the adult mental health team.
RB.
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