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Psychiatry-UK 2023-03-08 Person 3 5 0

My experience of my assesors: My psychiatrist seemed really kind and i felt safe with him. My nurse seemed ok but i did not feel safe with her. I'm not sure why. My experience of my assessment: I would like to have understood how the assessment worked. After the assessment i felt that they had been asking me questions about other mental health conditions and that because maybe they felt that i had other mental health conditions, they didn't need to give me an autism diagnosis. It felt to me like they were trying to find ways that i was not autistic rather than how i feel i am autistic. I felt really upset after the assessment as i did not understand how they could base that i am not autistic on three main things: that i was able to communicate on a one to one online, that i could express how i feel and that i did not look autistic. Some main issues that i have is dissociating and masking and this was in my written assessment but i cant remember them asking me about this in this face to face assessment. I find it weird that masking and dissociating was not taken into account in my answers and how i presented, or at least this is how it seemed to me. I have issues with trust and not feeling safe and not understanding why fully has made me feel less trusting and more unsafe.