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[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 7 months ago

ive had the same therapist for 2 years. he rarely spends even 3 minutes with me, mostly he just does rx refills. I quit my job recently so i don't have insurance. I told him we'll need to postpone our next visit until i find another job, and his response was "I'll just go ahead and close your case, good luck"

fuckin wow

[-] odmroz@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

That sounds like a psychiatrist, not a therapist . A regular degular down the middle therapist can't prescribe.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

That's awful. In general psychiatrists/nurse practitioners (all the one who can prescribe meds) suck at doing therapy. They are first and foremost medical practitioners and they only really care about you being upright, and not about your quality of life, like every other doctor/nurse.

You really need a psychologist/licensed clinical social worker for talk therapy. The problem is many of them especially good ones don't take insurance. Many do sliding scale payments though, so its not impossible to find it affordably but its still not easy.

Its a pretty shitty system, that makes it hardest for the people who need it most to access it. Unfortunately that's why talk therapy often gets stigmatized as a luxury, or as like pointless or indulgent, because the people who can most easily access therapy can because of privilege or self indulgence. Which sucks, because it can be enormously helpful to people.

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