Hi chaps,
In terms of the PMU occasionally being subject to recovery times does this logic apply to periods of mental health difficulty?
I've got a few ducks I'm trying to line up as I foresee them coming up on the medical and resulting in a TMU at very, very least.
Firstly, I come from a family where there were a good few diagnoses of Asperger's Syndrome - I was diagnosed in 2011 but this was overturned by another professional in 2019. Hopefully this evidence will suffice.
Secondly, I grew up in a complex family home where my father went through mental illness for a period of decades - this took a huge toll on the family. As a result of this and work-related stress I had an episode of acute anxiety in 2016 which saw me signed off of work and put onto a week-long prescription of Valium. Confusingly, I was put under the local team for early psychosis and did a formulation process with them. I think this will be the main difficulty in my application as I will need to go into the specifics about the context of this episode and its precipitating factors as well as disputing being put under the team for early psychosis.
Thirdly, in 2017 my father finally lost his battle with mental health and took his own life in our family home. This of course was a very stressful period of our lives and I had moved back home to try to support him - I ended up doing a police statement, inquest etc. However, roughly a month after the funeral, the stress caught up with me and I decided to voluntarily seek treatment at the local mental health hospital. I was discharged after about three weeks and then came off medication soon afterward. In many ways I feel like this episode will be the easiest to contextualise as there is a clear precipitating incident and I wasn't actually sectioned - I self-admitted which I hope shows that I had the wherewithal to ask for help.
With that in mind, does anyone know of cases where these types of barriers have been successfully negotiated?
All the best and a Merry Christmas,
Hersh