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Starting your mental health journey. (Original Post) multigraincracker Mar 2024 OP
I'm so lucky XanaDUer2 Mar 2024 #1
I was very lucky to find a great multigraincracker Mar 2024 #2
Finding one is not the issue. (Possible Trigger Warning) OldBaldy1701E Mar 2024 #3
It was a terrible mistake to close multigraincracker Mar 2024 #4
As I said, regardless of their glowing commercials and magazine articles, they don't care. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Mar 2024 #5
Oh, and the fact that they want us to care about their 'economy' or their whatever is so laughable. OldBaldy1701E Mar 2024 #6

XanaDUer2

(13,872 posts)
1. I'm so lucky
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 11:53 AM
Mar 2024

With both my shrink therapist. Theyre both great and filled out reams of paperwork for me FMLA, insurance, ssdi

multigraincracker

(34,077 posts)
2. I was very lucky to find a great
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 01:28 PM
Mar 2024

Psychiatrists that saved my life. Told me I had a couple of learning disabilities that I had no idea about and a PTSD I also didn’t understand. Told me if I went back to college and sat in the front row, I’d get all As. He was right and I did. Even got degrees in Clinical Psychology and Anthropology. That was pure luck finding him, or did he find me?

OldBaldy1701E

(6,349 posts)
3. Finding one is not the issue. (Possible Trigger Warning)
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 07:56 AM
Mar 2024

Paying for one is. And, they only offer the same options that are always offered. Basically, if you don't have money, you don't get decent care. You get a 'feel good' option that has no issue tossing pills down your throat but won't do much else.

Mental health is the most screwed up aspect of our healthcare system and it is because they don't want to admit to too much. If they do, then so many people would have a legitimate (in their eyes) reason for SSDI and other type things. The powers that be cannot accept that. So, they downplay it and offer insults disguised as 'help'. They don't want to help you. They want you to either go make them richer or go die. Period.

multigraincracker

(34,077 posts)
4. It was a terrible mistake to close
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 08:03 AM
Mar 2024

all the mental hospitals and replace them with the prison system.
Insurance and even Medicare only pay for one visit a year.

OldBaldy1701E

(6,349 posts)
6. Oh, and the fact that they want us to care about their 'economy' or their whatever is so laughable.
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 08:14 AM
Mar 2024

"We won't do a thing for you, but you'd better get out there and do everything for us! Or ELSE!"

THAT is the way of things.

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