I recently received a diagnosis of bipolar (technically it was diagnosed in 2020 but I’ll get to that)
Anyway, I’ve been really struggling with my mental health and had a suicide attempt that culminated in the crisis team telling my GP to not change any of my medication and to ignore my communication as it’s a manipulative tactic as seen with eupd.. which I don’t have.
so I went back to the priory and saw another doctor who did another assessment on me, it took about 1hour and at the end of it she said she was sorry that my previous psychiatrists had been treating me for EUPD because my original psychiatrist had categorised me as BPD instead of BPAD. So by missing out the A it has caused me so much pain
Today I received a 5 page letter outlining my mental health history and went into about my rape and how seeing my rapist in the street in 2020 triggered my first long manic episode, it’s got information about my suicidal thoughts and my suicide attempt in 2019 and 2020 when ended up in icu, it says I was very visibly distressed in the appointment and an incredibly high suicide risk so My GP needed to start community support and see me face to face within 48 hours as I was such a high risk.
They never sent this letter to my GP. The letter above is addressed to my GP not me, it says ‘GP only’ on It. The admin assistant who sent it to my email address asked me to pass it on to my GP because they had not been able to find an email address or a physical address for my GP. So they just didnt bother. I saw my psychiatrist on March 24th, and I received the email containing it on May 15.
I just feel so let down by everyone. I tried to access crisis team but they said that because I had a private psychiatrist I wasn’t eligible for support.
am I right to feel so let down and pissed off ?