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⌈ Secret Post #3357 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

You seem like a nice person who genuinely wants to give good advice, so if I sound pissy here, please know that I'm trying not to. But honestly, where do all of you people come from who keep saying "talk to a therapist"?!!

I'm Canadian (so not the most socialist country, but considerable better than some), and to my knowledge there are no free handouts for therapy hours. There are some short-term generalized group therapy courses one can take for free, but beyond that, have fun paying $130+ an hour for your therapy sessions. Which, when you make $10 an hour, is nothing short of insanity. I mean, by telling me to see a therapist you may as well tell me to move to a castle in the Swiss Alps for how attainable it is. Like, yes, I could maybe scrape together enough money to see a therapist once a month, if I gave up every other non-essential expense in my already frugal existence. But that would only be once a month, and given how successful the average one-on-one therapy engagement has been shown to be, when documented over a ten year period, for me it would be a pretty huge investment for a very small chance of success.

In short: for the meager chance that a therapist could help me, I would happily go see them multiple times a week if I could, but that is so fucking far from being an option I can't even wrap my mind around how there are people in this world who can pay the fees.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not one of the people that's said "Go get therapy!" but I find that interesting.

I'm in the US, and for once, it sounds like it's signifcantly more accessible here. At least sometimes it's covered by health insurance, and there are therapists that work on a sliding scale, so you pay depending on how much you make/how much you can afford (someone might only have to pay like $25-30, or possibly even less, depending on the situation).

[(Anonymous)]

Which province? Because therapy offered by medical doctors - psychiatrists, primary care physicians who offer talk sessions - is covered in both the provinces I live in, and may be covered in others. Psychologists and other pure talk providers may also be covered, depending on whether or not they're working in a government-run clinic or other facility.

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[(Anonymous)]

*lived, I only live in one now

[(Anonymous)]

I live in BC.

I do know seeing a psychologist is covered. But what happens there is you see them, you briefly explain what is wrong, and they give you a prescription for something they think might help. But the last time I checked, they don't make any drugs with the function of "making the drug-taker attracted to people." So.

And I have zero knowledge of any primary care physicians who do talk sessions. I have a GP, and she certainly does nothing of the sort. And the Mood Disorders Association of BC has an open group therapy session once a week. But it's extremely general and surfacey, spending a couple of minutes on each person before going on the the next.

I'm on disability, so if anyone was going to be eligible for covered therapy sessions, I'd think it would be me. But I have expressed interest in pursuing regular therapy sessions with multiple healthcare practitioners and none of them have been able to suggest anything that wasn't either extremely limited (you get four sessions and then you're done) or extremely expensive (at least $100 per hour, if one is willing to see a counselor rather than a fully registered therapist. Therapists are all up over $120 now).

Hey, thanks

[(Anonymous)]

Same anon as before, and I just wanted to say that after reading your comment, I went and googles some stuff, and it seems like the healthcare professionals I spoke to about this were kind of screwing me over and not giving me good information, because I did get some results for potential counselling facilities at reduced rates. I didn't see any that would allow me to see a fully registered psychologist, but at least I can maybe look into seeing a counselor. So uh, thank you. :)