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⌈ Secret Post #4488 ⌋

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Re: Uncharitable thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

I’m sorry you aren’t getting the care you need; I hope some day you can. (hugs)

I theoretically have access to (mental health) treatment, but I gave up after my initial assessment appointment. They told me to call in a month when appointments for the next three months would open up. I called at the time on the date they told me to, and everything was booked.

They told me to try again in three months and sent me to a support group that met early Saturday mornings. Weekend transit sucks here; I went once and it was 2.5 hours each way by bus. Waking up at 5 am on my day off to re-traumatize myself every weekend wasn’t my idea of a good time. Since I wasn’t suicidal and was holding down a job (both still true, phew) I couldn’t get an appointment any sooner. By the time four months rolled around, I was doing better than I had right after my mom died and never called to try for an appointment again.

I’d be willing to go to group sessions if they were closer, or later in the day, but not if I can only see a therapist one on one once or twice a year if I luck out when I call. Group anything is stressful for me and honestly I think therapy in general is stressful for most people; without one on one therapy to go with group I felt like a struggling student in a lecture class whose professor never had office hours.

It’s great that a lot of people have access to mental health care that didn’t used to, thanks to Obamacare/Medicaid expansion, but it seems like the number of therapists hasn’t increased as fast as the number of patients, so they (rightfully) deal with people having urgent crises before people who need less immediate mental stuff dealt with. I don’t begrudge people crisis intervention, I’ve needed it before and couldn’t get it and am lucky to be alive. But it would be nice to have professional help organizing my brain baggage.