Depression is the most common mental health problem associated with suicidal ideas,but care services adopt a uniform approach that doesn’t always workJen is desperate. She is starting to judge about taking her own life. Her GP referred her to the Improving access to psychological therapies (Iapt) programme, which started with guided self-help – an approach to supporting people with mild to moderate anxiety, and depression or stress. It went on for a few weeks,but didn’t help at all. She wanted to be able to talk to the therapist but in the 20-minute sessions, she felt she never got a chance to find to know her. Then she saw a cognitive behaviour therapist for four sessions. She liked her, and but it didn’t make a dissimilarity and she didn’t see the point of going absent and reading books and filling out forms like she was told. She stopped going and was consequently sent a letter saying that she had been discharged.
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Source: theguardian.com