Wednesday

I had a lovely (and totally unexpected) email from my psychologist, D, today. I had copied him in on the email I sent (posted here). He said this was very serious, that he was so sorry it has happened, and said an urgent response is needed. He has forwarded my email to his manager and his manager's manager (who is the locality director) and expects something to happen by the end of the day. I have spoken to him on the phone and he was warm and supportive, said there was no problem emailing him about this, told me to phone him again this evening.

Also had an email from M's boss, the one who told me I could get support from M (despite the fact I had made it clear this was unacceptable). He said he understood I had questions to ask and would phone between 4 and 5 today. I replied that I was not sure there was much point in him phoning me in the light of his actions so far (but have left it to him to decide whether to or not). We shall see.

D was pleased I have an appointment with Ruth next week. He reassured me several times that I am not difficult I just have difficult problems to deal with. He said he felt much of what has been said to me was unprofessional and inappropriate. He has said he will fight my corner, recognised that I had nobody doing that. It helped so much, even though I cried buckets.