Thank you very much for this. It makes for interesting reading and is really useful for my psychiatrists appointment next week. On the whole it seems like a good thing to have this set of guidelines that Community Mental Health must follow. The thing that puts me out most is that Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is only mentioned as being available for women who self-harm. What about men? I was kind of hoping that I might get on DBT as it seems the most likely course of treatment to succeed.

Anyway, thanks once again - its really helpful to have a document to point to and say 'well, the guidance says this should happen, why isn't it?'

UM