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I am 23FTM with autism, panic disorder, 3 past suicide attempts and a long history of different traumas which mostly aren't sexual at the time of this recommendation. Since age 16 I have had more sexual trauma.
I've discovered a mental health assessment document from just after a suicide attempt when I was 18 that stated that in my past history a different mental health team recommended that I get sexual abuse counselling when I was 16. Both the teams are different parts of my local NHS trust's mental health department but each one deals with patients at the acute and non acute stage respectively afaik. This recommendation from age 16 came from the non-acute team. I believe they were involved when I had an autistic meltdown and my school contacted the team because I expressed suicidal thoughts during said meltdown.
I am really confused about this because I don't remember experiencing anything that I think would be sexual abuse at that age or before then. At most I had a few sexual comments and one or two instances of sexual harassment from guys my age at school (brief touching my bottom or lower back) and one much older guy from Facebook (in a different country) who wanted to date me and would message me and like and comment my posts all the time for a few weeks or months. I did also talk a lot on Omegle text chat because I was lonely but hardly anyone actually preyed on me when I told them my age.
My older sister claims once when I was 6 and she was 10 a drunk/high man exposed himself to us and our mother but I don't remember this at all. Saying that my memories of that time are fuzzy since I was homelesss and not in my hometown at the time. I don't remember any family member doing sexual abuse to me. I remember a lot of things from my childhood too, very traumatic things I am still struggling to cope with now.
I have already arranged an appointment later in the month with my GP to discuss this and see if he knows anything else about this. The document did say "confidential, do not disclose to patient" but this was in my NHS app records so my GP probably doesn't mind me seeing it and this was 5 years ago now anyway. I have been seeing the local AMHS since I was 19, idk if it's worth asking them if they know if my GP doesn't know? It's hard to know who to ask about this stuff because it's so awkward and I'm already quite private about my sexual trauma from after I was 16.
The document from the mental health assessment was also written a bit weirdly, as if they didn't proofread what they said and they even confused my current antidepressant (sertraline) at the time with another one (citalopram). Punctuation was missing and there's a random word in one sentence, so it does make me wonder if the assessor miswrote the history notes or something.
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