at the end of the road

Hi freddie,

Welcome to the Forum.

You might have a look at the Human Givens Institute Register

Good luck

Hi Mike, thanks for the reply. I have checked the human givens out but the nearest therapist is in Northampton-------there is no way I can travel that distance. Can any one recommend any form of therapy that would help me .And that I can obtain in my area.I had 8 years of dymanic psychotherapy on the nhs which finished a year ago, and although it did give me insight into what and why things have happened to me ,I really feel that all my problems were compounded and rather than being able to let go I've hung onto everything negitive thats ever happened to me. I'm a 46 year old woman and I suppose because I've had problems all my life,all I can see in the future are more, and I don't have any more resourses left to cope with the depair I feel. When I was 22 years old I finally got to see a psychologist on the nhs,I'd suffered depression/anxiety since my early teens due to(so I've been told) an angry Father with alcohol problems and a Mother who was depressed all the time. I remember feeling full of hope way back then, that I would one day be well and be able to have a reasonably normal life,unfortunately I ended up being sexually abused----I found out years later with the help of a solicator that I was not the only one,the psychologist had been a serial abuser praying on young vunerable women.I've been assured that he was taken off the register and can't practice again.He told me way back then that no one would believe me if I told any one and I believed him. He insisted that I continued to see him----so he could make sure I wasn't talking I expect. I felt trapped and hopeless and ended up taking an overdose.It seemed the only way out. To cut a long story short I ended up in hospital,told no one and eventually got myself together enough to get out,back to work and meet a lovely man whom I am still with-------22 years later . The depression got so bad 9 years back that my G.P. said I needed someone to talk to, she asked me about my chilhood and I ended up telling her everything about the psychologist,to my surprise she believed. That was when I staretd the dynamic therapy as mentioned above. The woman psychotherapist I saw seemed very experianced and I know that she did care about me but the therapy just didn't work for me. I kept asking her why I wasn't getting well and she would say I'd had some really bad experiences in my life and had been depressed/anxious for so many years of my life that it was going to take many years to get well. She retired a year and a ahalf ago, when she left it was like a good friend had died , but I came to terms with it quite quickly I think. She did give me her e-mail address to contact her but I never have as I didn't think it was appropriate . Present day---- depresson, no longer able to cope with, anxiety---- terrified most of the time. Can any one suggest anything and give me some hope.

hi freddie - details on the best therapy for depression are here:
http://www.clinical-depression.co.uk/Tr ... herapy.htm

Mike's suggestion is a good one - the HG register contains well-trained therapists. You might want to try giving them a call to see if they have anyone nearer - 01323 811440

Hi freddie

I know a good hypnotherapist in Leamington Spa - Alan Armstrong. Here's a link to his website

If you contact him, tell him I recommended him.

Good luck, and keep posting, freddie. We'll do our best to help from here.

Kathleen