"No therapy or treatment - just medication"

My mother was admitted to Burnley General Hospital whilst experiencing an acute period of psychosis in February 2013.

Whilst medication stabilised her mood and reduced the psychosis, she received no therapeutic intervention at all during her inpatient treatment, nor upon discharge. This means that the reason that she became ill - high anxiety and stress - has not been addressed at all.

Since her admission, she was occasionally seen by a CMHT nurse and has since stopped taking her medication. She was told that if she experienced any more problems to contact the CMHT and they would be in touch. After not having slept at all for two days and presenting with symptoms that include paranoia and anxiety, she contacted the CMHT to arrange a home visit. It has now been two weeks and she has just been told that the appointment with the nurse has been put back again until mid-January.

I don't blame the under-resourced nurse but I do blame the inability of East Lancs to provide effective mental healthcare and support for my mother. I feel that they won't act until she is at crisis point and being sectioned again.

Let alone the COMPLETE lack of therapeutic intervention - the dingy environment and inappropriate setting at Burnley General was enough to make anyone ill.

If patients with mild to moderate depression can receive CBT via IAPT, I really can't understand why someone who was extremely ill and remains very vulnerable has received no therapy at all.