After awaiting a phone call and/or letter for a mental health appointment for around 6 weeks, I chased this up. Apparently they were meant to get back to me after 28 days?! Anyway, I called them 2 weeks ago directly and was triaged that afternoon over the phone. My face to face appointment was the week after that (12th March 2020). I was somewhat chaotic and sleepless on the lead up to this appointment however on arriving (15 minutes late) I was instantly relieved by the professionals I met. The receptionist was calm in response to my chaos and the clinician was very understanding and able to relate to me throughout. He reassured me that my diagnosis will indeed be different although cannot say for certain what this will be yet. That my meds will need to be reassessed and he will refer me to the local IDT for treatment. I now await to hear the final outcome unfortunately I am due to return to work at the end of this month which I'm not neccessarily looking forward to.

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