I have a number of mental and physical health issues that affect one another, I am disabled by them and I have insomnia due to these. I am also autistic. I have chosen not to take medication because I don’t want additional side effects to the many ones that I already experience and I don’t want to do damage to any organs or other parts of my body from being on them long term. I need to decompress for at least a few days after speaking to someone.
I get mental health support from professionals twice a week and I try to prioritise working on that and using my energy for the basics, and a hobby for a short time if I can manage on top of that but barely. I’m in the UK but I didn’t get a formal education which I consider to have been child neglect that went undetected as it was under “unschooling” which is somehow legal, so I am currently working with a tutor funded by the council to gain qualifications. Our meetings are currently about once every 2-3 weeks because I can’t manage to do it more often on top two hourly meetings a week with my mental health support workers. I am also working with someone that will help me gain life skills and employability skills, but due to everything else I have taken on, these meetings are about once every 3 weeks to a month because that is what I can manage. Everyone I work with is aware of my health issues and how they impact me and that sometimes I need to reschedule. My last meeting with my employability skills worker was over a week ago, our next one is in two weeks and I have had two reminders asking me if I have done the work and to send it to her. After the second reminder I explained to her that I am currently burned out and prioritising working myself out of it so that I don’t lose all ability to function and her 3rd email in response to it reads “Our next meeting is booked for (date), please can you aim to have this completed by then so we can move things forwards?”. I am thinking about speaking to their manager but I am not sure if I am being unreasonable