I'm autistic and have auditory sensitivities so I need ear plugs for certain tractors. We were using E-A-R earsoft FX plugs but we've run out and the new ones feel wrong in my ears and won't go back in if I take them out for any reason. Can anyone recommend a decent brand of comfy earplugs that will remould if I take them out and put them back in?
Disposable or reusable is fine
3 months ago my leg was crushed by a tractor. Miraculously walked away with bad bruises but a week later I felt a pop inside the muscle and then developed an enormous hematoma. My leg has only gotten worse since. I've spoken to doctors off the books and been told I need a CT scan as they suspect a morel lavellee lesion.
My GP is not interested, A&E is not interested, the local urgent care centre is not interested.
I'm literally getting worse every day and can barely walk. If it is a morel lavellee lesion, it needed treated weeks ago, leaving it makes it worse and worse and then eventually go necrotic. Convincing the GP to listen to me isn't going well and even if I manage, it'll be months before I'm seen and the damage will be a lot worse.
My mental health is already awful and I'm struggling with this so badly I'm at my wits end.
How do I get help when everywhere that's supposed to help has said no?
I'm on survival mode. I've explored all of mystery lakes (some spots multiple times) and most of mountain town. Checked all of the houses in Milton, every car I can find, the farm. Is it possible that one just hasn't spawned?
My doctors are basically just ignoring me when I need physio after an injury. I've posted in askdocs, where else can i get physio advice?
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(This post is gonna be super messy and probably missing/repeating parts bc I'm crying my eyes out rn I can't think straight)
I'm aware that Reddit isn't the right place for this, however, I've been to my doctor 4 times. Each time they don't listen to a word I say, examine my leg for about 4 seconds, always in the same position and don't touch it enough to feel all the inconsistencies in the muscle. Then they send me home again without any help when I need physio.
3 months ago I had a tractor roll into me, the handbrake failed and it pinned me against the gatepost, the wheel axel went across the back of my thigh and compressed it down to the bone. A week or so later, I developed an enormous hematoma and my leg swollen up to triple it's normal size. My leg is ruined from the hematoma and I need physio but the doctors just aren't interested.
The photo was taken after the incident but before the hematoma, I can't get a photo of the current muscle shape as my phone camera is broken. (I could possibly borrow someone else's phone and add a photo later if necessary)
The pink area is a void, there's no muscle there, the blue area seems to have extra bunched up muscle in it and the red area is rock hard.
My whole life I've had problems with my hips/back. Some minor skeletal offsets mean that I need to be doing daily physio/yoga/stretches to maintain the tightness and pain in my lower back and pelvis. This injury has made that completely impossible and I'm in a lot of pain. I can't squat, crouch or lift my heel to my bum because the blue area of muscle is literally in the way, it's blocking my leg from bending. Without doing the stretches that i need to do, my back and hips are locking up.
I get different sensations in it, all of which are painful and very uncomfortable. The red area fizzes, feels like someone's poured hot coke under my skin (this hurts and also sends me into sensory overload), I get dull aches and stabbing pains, sometimes it feels like there's a big thick piece of cupboard tucked under my skin and I can't bend properly.
My only hobbies were bouldering and hiking, I've had to cancel my whole summer. My mental health is terrible anyway and this is absolutely breaking me at the moment. I'm terrified that the doctors ignoring me for the past few months has done extra damage to my muscles that I can never heal from.
Can anyone please suggest some physio exercises that might help? Even if I get the doctor to take me seriously it'll be months before I'm seen, the injury will be nearly a year old but that point.
I know swimming would be good for it but swimming pools are a sensory nightmare and I can't handle them without melting down.
ETA: Sometimes when I sit or lie down, I can feel that I'm sitting on the muscle wrong and it's sticking out, I have to manually tuck it into place
ETA again: the red section and surrounding tissue is numb
So we all know that Hollywood is evil and that young actors and singers are treated appallingly but I've not heard much about similar things here. Is the same kind of shit going on? Have I missed something?
So over the past few years I've seen a lot of things on social media that I can relate to and other autistic commenters are also relating to I'm trying to put together a list of my symptoms for a CMHT appointment but I'm feeling so fried I can barely think rn
Types of traits I'm talking about are things like
Seizures
Digestive issues
Walking at an obstacle and then leaning around it instead of avoiding it entirely
That specific sleeping position
Can anyone else think of any others? I will obviously pick through the relevant ones and not write everything down
How common is it for these two to be mixed up?
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I (28F) was "diagnosed" with BPD about 3 years, CMHT told me I had it but never diagnosed me formally and then didn't help me.
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I moved away about 6 years ago and I've kept my parents at arms length ever since but over the past few years I've realised just how abusive my mum was and how much it's fucked me up. The constant shouting, insults, belittling comments, being told how stupid and incompetent I am, being screamed at for having autistic meltdowns, being thrown and pushed under bathwater as a child. It's completely broken me and I've spent my entire life so far fighting these demons without realising that they're all different forms of my mum.
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I've just come across something about the overlapping symptoms of BPD and I'm wondering if maybe I don't have a personality disorder?
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I'm about to go back to CMHT in a couple of weeks (I have social services on my side now so hopefully CMHT will actually listen this time) and since CMHT are fucking useless I need to know what kind of direction to take this in as I don't trust them to do their jobs properly (this will my 10th time with them in the past 3 years and I've been getting let down by mental health services since I was 15). I'm absolutely terrified of this going wrong again, I don't have the energy left for another dead end and failed attempt at getting help.
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I live in the UK and I've been a member of TST since 2022. When I first joined there was a congregation in London but it was too far to attend regularly so I thought I'd wait for them to expand across the country a bit but that congregation has since closed down and no others have started. I like the idea of starting one but my mental health makes it difficult to shower, let alone lead a social/political movement.
This question might be a bit out of reach for the majority of people who are likely to comment as I need advice with a knowledge of UK law and mental health services and I know TST is largely American with a few European and Canadian congregations. Regardless, I'm desperate enough to reach out.
I've spent my entire adult life fighting for mental health support that I can't seem to get. I started asking for help at 15 and I'm now 28. My local mental health systems are horribly underfunded and they tend to dismiss people with complex needs. If they can't help you with a booklet on mindfulness and some breathing exercises then you're on your own. (See r/mentalhealthuk for multiple posts about our horribly neglectful mental health system).
I'm at a point where I'm so desperate that I feel like I'm running out of options. Without getting the right help, I have no quality of life and I don't want to carry on. The NHS treat me like I'm some kind of dramatic idiot, like my mental health concerns are some kind of ruse for benefits and sympathy. I've had the crisis team and police involved, yet no real care or support.
13 years of asking/applying/begging have got me nowhere near the help I really need and I'm at a point where I'm starting to feel like dying is my only option. I'm about a month away from starting with my local CMHT (community mental health team) but they've let me down 9 times already and I really can't see any reason it'd be different this time. I honestly feel like a complete fucking idiot even asking them for support after everything they've put me through, but it's the only option I have.
Is there any way that I could get some kind of religious exemption that forces the mental health team to support me properly? Could I see a solicitor and force the care I need? Could I sue for neglect and medical malpractice?
I'm literally fucking desperate and I've reached a place where I feel like I'm completely out of options, to a point where I'm reaching out to a movement that doesn't even exist in my country. If anyone can offer me some relevant advice I would really appreciate it. If other followers think that the TST could genuinely help me then I'd be happy to reach out officially, but I don't know if they can help me from my country.
The only service available to me is CMHT but they do absolutely fuck all.
In the past 2 years I've seen them 9 times and every single time they either discharge me with 0 help or try to put me in a group, which is also 0 help.
I've practically begged them to take me seriously and they don't care. I contacted the NHS chat health services yesterday and this woman just confirmed that there's no help for me and told me to try someone else or get private therapy. I've tried all of the local services, I can't afford private therapy.
I honestly feel like I'm out of options and I don't think I'm going to be here much longer.
Where can I call/text to talk to someone?
Not the hub, shout or Samaritans
I'm diagnosed with depression, anxiety, PTSD and BPD, waiting for autism and ADHD assessment.
I've been offered vortiexetine and I'm very unsure about taking it. I spent years on different meds and absolutely hated all of them, I personally feel that they're not beneficial and are just an additional problem to deal with.
I was just wondering what experiences other people have had with this medication
Tia
UK
My parents were terrible and I've cut contact.
If something happens to me I don't want to wake up in hospital with them in the room, if I die I don't want them arranging my funeral and doing all their performative bullshit.
Is there a way to fully and legally cut my connection with them? Make sure that police or other emergency services wouldn't be able to contact them?
***This post was rejected by another subreddit for asking for a diagnosis. I am not asking for a diagnosis, I need advice on which service would be better to turn to in order to get the correct diagnosis***
This post is gonna be a bit messy as my thoughts are deeply unorganised but I'm gonna do my best to be coherent and I really appreciate any and all responses.
I'm already diagnosed with depression, anxiety, PTSD and BPD. I'm waiting for an autism and ADHD diagnosis (2 years in, probably 3 years left). Abusive parents, abusive relationships, sexual abuse, general trauma.
I've been spiralling since the end of last year. I've been dealing with a lot and at some point I kind of lost the ability to function properly.
Realising that I'm autistic and how intensely it's affected me has made it so much harder to cope with. I feel like I've lost the ability to suppress it and now I'm persistently burnt out, having constant meltdowns, terrified of socialising. It's just got completely out of hand.
During this 6 monthsish spiral, I've been experiencing some really peculiar symptoms that I couldn't work out. Seeing things in my peripheral, feeling things touch me that don't exist, this intense overwhelming anxiety that has destroyed what little social life I had. I help out on a farm and I'm close with the guy that runs the livestock. I've said to him so many times that everyone there seems to hate me except him and his kids, he's adamant that they don't but I just feel like he's lying to me? I've had periods where I feel like I'm not real? Like maybe I'm a sim or a book character or something? I don't trust my doctors, I don't trust the mental health services. I've had a really bad time with both (without an autism diagnosis they just treat me like I'm being deliberately difficult. I've had someone discharge me because she "didn't know what to do with me", I've been silently discharged and unexpectedly left with no support, the only help I get offered is support groups, which overwhelm me and make me shut down).
I realised a couple of days ago that a lot of these things line up with psychosis so I was going to contact the EIP when they open on Tuesday but I've just spent hours doing research and found that autistic regression in adults can present very similarly to psychosis.
I'm completely lost, I know that I have to grit my teeth and try to access some kind of service, but I have 0 idea what's wrong with me or where to go? Am I having some kind of intense prolonged autistic meltdown? Am I psychotic? I know that psychosis is serious and needs dealing with asap but I'm absolutely terrified of being misdiagnosed and wasting time treating something that I don't have. I've already wasted my life so far fighting demons that I didn't know existed. What the fuck do I do