I’ll try and be brief…Just over three years ago I left an abusive relationship and moved to a different part of the country to, hopefully, start a new life, I seemed to be coping reasonably well for a while but after about twelve months I reached a point where everything became too much and I decided to access some of the NHS mental health services you see advertised on Facebook, after an initial assessment I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety, I tried CBT with two different services but it didn’t help at all so I tried counselling, I have now seen five different counsellors, I started to feel more able to cope but recently I seem to have taken a turn for the worse and I’m losing hope of ever recovering, one counsellor advised me to try antidepressants which my GP was reluctant to prescribe but these made me physically ill and I felt no better at all, I’m beginning to feel like a lost cause, I wake up every day filled with dread and my family are at their wits end with me. I just want to function like the normal happy person I used to be, has anyone been in my situation who could offer any advice ?