How To Find Someone To Help

[BubbleTravel]

With the caveat I completely understand the poor NHS is on it's knees and underfunded and Drs and nurses do brilliant jobs for nowhere near enough pay or recognition and I'm grateful it's free and this isn't a Bash The NHS post....

I really need help and every GP I encounter is useless. I want to know what's wrong with me, I suspect I may have CPTSD from an abusive childhood but then I read about other conditions and those sound like me too. Can I privately see someone to get diagnosed once and for all? I've had generic counselling and CBT offered by the nhs and it was next to useless. Is there like a private Dr or professional or someone I could pay to see me and help me figure out what's wrong and some sort of action plan going forward? I'm at rock bottom really, I try my hardest but something will trigger me and that'll be it, I can be ill for days and I can't do this anymore. I want to study, I want a career, I want to live my life and I don't know how to start, where to access the help I need. Does such a service even exist? Some private person you can visit that will help? I don't mean a life coach or anything like that, I mean a medical professional; psychologist? psychiatrist? Or do I need to push my GP for a referral to someone? Please help.

You can see psych private, see if there’s a Priory near you.
You can basically see who you want private if your paying.

You can’t just get a diagnosis in a couple of visits though.
As they need a back story/history
So depending how long that takes to get a picture, so it won’t be cheap as depending where you live it’s anything from £200-£350

I think, bubble, that secondary care mental health services (ie beyond GP) are so stretched that they operate strict criteria for referral, and your GP probably feels you wouldn't meet criteria hence not referring. Have you had this conversation with your GP? What do they say?

Honestly I'd be cautious of the priory now a days.

It's really hard because professionals tend to have something they specialise in and thus won't always see the range of possible conditions (for example, CPTsD is often diagnosed as BPD/EUPD, it's sometimes misdiagnosed as bipolar)

Do you know what you hope to get out of a diagnosis? To generalise clinical psychologists (make sure it's a CLINICAL psychologist) will explain why you have your problems in the context of the life you've lived. Psychiatrists will tell you if you have what they view as a medical mental health problem (ie bipolar) and have the capacity to prescribe medication