A psychiatrist (in 2010) referred me to a local DBT clinic at the mental health clinic and they did not call me either. I followed up and the lady there treated me the same way. the only difference was she never even evaluated me. She just said, "We don't serve your zip code, we don't accept your insurance..." And she was very angry and seemed irritated at me for even calling.

I called the doctor back and she said, "Billi, we can't help you. You need to go elsewhere..."

About your topic about the therapist, I wondered what that psychiatrist, who had referred me, might have said to that woman at the DBT clinic. I was not certain that she might have colored this woman's thinking about me.

It was horrible.

I wanted to die that day but I did not act on it.

After that, I adamantly began self-help and logged onto dbtselfhelp.com. My attitude was: "I will do it myself then!" And I started my own DBT work online and my blogging.

Sounds to me (to me) like this woman (who was dealing with you) has her own problems and wants to control people, so, like I said in my earlier thread, "Rejection is a blessing."! Good riddance, our DBT groups might have hurt us more than they might have helped. She might have done you a lot of damage anyway. As in my own situation.

Billi