Anyone else here with autism who got 'treated' with heavy drugs after autism freakouts?
As title says, I am an autistic man in his mid-twenties, when I was 20 I had a breakdown/freak out and everybody assumed I was psychotic, so I was sent to a psych ward for three months, placed on heavy antipsychotics, and then promptly placed in a group home for mental health patients. It was traumatic.
Then fast forward to 2021, November, I also had another autistic freakout except this time it was in a psychiatrist's office, again, they assumed I was psychotic when I was not, and placed in a psych ward for two months. I have to be supervised when taking my medication after that, I'm not allowed to take them on my own, it's humiliating, degrading. For five years I have had support workers who 'help' me, they give me my medication and watch me take them to ensure I take them.
Two months ago I was at my psychiatrist's, and when I asked to get rid of my workers, he said I would end up back in the hospital, he said it was not a opinion, it was a fact. As if he could see the future.
I don't like this. Is there anything I can do to get these workers and psychiatrists off my back? I had a psychiatrist in my old city, he was a kind, british gentleman, he was really the only person in my life who saw me as a bright individual, not as someone who is incapable of doing basic things.
Any advice appreciated,
Thanks.