"Suspension of therapy amidst the pandemic"

I had a therapy session yesterday, via telephone, and was told that my therapy is to be suspended for an unknown time due to the coronavirus pandemic. As much as i understand the reasoning for this, I felt I must explain why, for me, this is terrifying.

I have been seeing a therapist for nearly a year now. Due to my issues, it is ongoing, with no clear end date as of yet. I came to therapy with crippling anxiety and depression and was also quickly diagnosed with an Anxious Avoidant Personality Disorder. My therapeuric journey is a LIFE-CHANGING journey. It had to be, as I could barely function, was not 'living' due to extreme anxiety and fear etc. It has taken to this point for me to, only just, start changing how I think and deal with life, meaning I am at possibly the most crucial part of my therapy because I am starting to shed my harmful ways of thinking which makes me extremely vulnerable at this point as I am on very unsteady ground.

Therapy is like my anchor, and my ONLY truly safe space. It is the only place I can talk about ANYTHING I need to talk about. I cannot just make do with talking to friends or family, if that was a possibility, I would not have had to go to therapy in the first place. I need the therapist/patient dynamic in order to feel I can talk freely, without judgement or shame, and without causing the ones I love extreme concern. Therapy is where I am shown other ways of looking at things, doing things, and shown things in a perspective other than my own that I am unable to see myself. I understand that this crisis is huge, and I understand the extreme pressure on the NHS more than any others, but it is this crisis that makes me feel it is more important than ever to continue my therapy as stopping now will almost certainly prove catastrophic, as I am in a very unsteady place, effectively functioning with a borrowed 'shield'. By 'shield', I mean self-worth/confidence/self-respect and the many other things that allow us to live a fairly healthy well-rounded life.

Therapy is my borrowed shield, therapy is where I am constructing my own shield. I am also a 'key-worker' as a home carer which brings it's own anxiety due to the current pandemic and I know that in order to keep working, to keep going outside I need to stay in therapy. My biggest fear just now is not the coronavirus, it is the thought of trying to cope with all of these things on my own. I am fairly certain I can't cope on my own. Which means my mental health may revert to how it was a year ago, barely leaving the house etc, and then become ever more exacerbated by the worldwide crisis.

Thank you for your time.