"CBT - Norfolk"

After two years of increased health anxiety and depression due to unresolved issues around previous NHS hospital treatment, I finally asked for help and was offered CBT, which seems to the the NHS's 'new best thing'. First therapist was useless, but mercifully emigrated to Australia halfway through my treatment! I was then shuffled off onto another therapist, who was great - until she was suddenly relocated to a new area. First I was told the sessions would last until June, then it was May, then the end of April - then, whoops, my therapist had holiday booked, so would I mind wrapping things up by the second week of April? Then I got a 'phone call to say my therapy could be extended for a few sessions, if necessary. By this time I was reeling and just wanted to put an end to the whole, incredibly painful process. Three months on, I am struggling to rebuild my life - the follow on number my therapist gave me has been changed to a fax only number and, when I finally tracked down the right number via the internet I was informed that there is no possibility - ever - of having any further contact with my therapist. I am left feeling abandoned, desperate, suicidal and worthless and this whole experience has undermined all of the work I did in therapy. I wish fervently that I had never allowed myself to fall into the clutches of the NHS mental health service.