Legitimately, it's one of sickest jokes about this country, that you can spend an hour with a therapist working on improving your mood, walk out of the session, and have it immediately undone when the receptionist tells you what the copay is.
100% agree that it's fucked up, but also you should check on if there's some sort of a community counseling program. I know where I live they do community counseling and it's sliding scale down to $5. I really wish that was more places
What's worse is that those of us who are qualified, have the degrees, were working before, and are reentering the field, are stuck behind delayed bureaucratic bullshit. Like all of my stuff has gone through, and it's been 6 months. I can't start working until they take it to a board meeting and then vote on approving all of the applications at once. It's Fucking stupid.
Yes, this is infuriating, along with your struggle to get paid by insurance companies, etc, or make other such tough decisions that may make you available to fewer patients because of similar bureaucratic tape. It’s all a mind fuck for everyone involved. Peak therapy, my ass.
I mean, yes you are right, but even if you don’t narrow it down and are willing to talk to whomever will listen, there’s still not enough. Can take months to get an 1st time appointment in some places.
"Peak" implies it is currently at its maximum and will go down from here. That is incorrect. We still need more mental health services for people and for those services to be affordable.
Yeah what an insane false premise. Setting aside the US, which is a shitshow, almost no countries with publicly funded healthcare include mental healthcare under that system.
We haven't even begun to peak. So many people are entering the field. So much more awareness and acceptance of mental health is being cultivated. So many more people are going to be getting care. We haven't peaked. We haven't even begun to peak.